Bacchius
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A bacchius is a (rare) metrical foot used in formal poetry.
In accentual-syllabic verse
we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this:
Example:
When day breaks
the fish bite
at small flies.
In accentual-syllabic verse
Accentual-syllabic verse
Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable...
we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this:
| da | DUM | DUM |
Example:
When day breaks
the fish bite
at small flies.