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Metrical Feet Flashcards

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Metrical Feet

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The recurrence of regular units in which a poem’s rhythm is constructed

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Iambic

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Unstressed Stressed ( U / )

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Trochaic

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Stressed Unstressed ( / U )

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Anapestic

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Unstressed Unstressed Stressed ( U U / )

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Dactylic

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Stressed Unstressed Unstressed ( / U U )

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