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Definition of Metrical foot
1. Noun. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.
Category relationships: Metrics, Prosody
Generic synonyms: Beat, Cadence, Measure, Meter, Metre
Specialized synonyms: Dactyl, Iamb, Iambus, Anapaest, Anapest, Amphibrach, Trochee, Spondee, Dibrach, Pyrrhic
Definition of Metrical foot
1. Noun. The basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrical Foot
Literary usage of Metrical foot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book for the Study of Poetry by Francis M. Connell (1913)
"THE metrical foot AND VERSE 1. -The Foot. — In general a metrical foot is any
regular, single group of stressed and unstressed syllables. ..."
2. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry by V. S. Rajam (1992)
"... is followed by a metrical foot beginning with a ner or a ... ending with a
ner is followed by a metrical foot beginning with a nirai or if an ..."
3. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"A metrical foot consisting of four syllables or notes, the first of which is long
and the last three short, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"Л double iambus ; a metrical foot consisting of 2 short and 2 long syllables in
alternation (----)• Dilettant'. ..."
5. The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum (1922)
"The metrical foot is not a natural division of language, like the word or the
... The analogy between the metrical foot and the musical bar is very close: ..."
6. Handbook for A Collection of Spiritual Hymns: Adapted to the Various Kinds by Myron K Sauder (2003)
"In poetical terms Q each pair is called a metrical "foot". ... A trochee, then,
is a metrical foot consisting of an g accented syllable followed by an ..."
7. Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1887)
"'Caesura' is the 'cutting' (TO/HI;) of a metrical foot by the break between ...
In every metrical foot there is one syllable on which the chief strength of ..."
8. Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases by John Stowell Adams (1865)
"Л verse each metrical foot of winch contains two short syllables and one long
... A verse each metrical foot of which is a pyrrhic, consisting of two short ..."
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