"foot" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet.
- Analyzing this, a poet would see a couplet with four iambic metrical feet in the first line and three in the second.
- Iambic tetrameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of four iambic feet:
- Iambic Pentameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of five iambic feet:
- Iambic Heptameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of seven iambic feet:
- Each line is a fourteener, having fourteen syllables and seven iambic feet.
- Usually associated with the comic theatre, it consists of seven feet with an extra syllable at the end instead of a full iambic foot.
- The strong syllables of the remaining iambic feet each carry secondary stress, as do any final weak syllables.
- An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
- A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row:
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