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foot: a standalone construct

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foot1 CONSTRUCTMetrical footARISTOTLE · METRICAL FOOT

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Poetics and prosody

Metrical unit of verse rhythm

In the study of verse a foot is the small recurring unit of rhythm, a fixed pattern of stressed and unstressed (or long and short) syllables such as the iamb or the dactyl, and a line's meter is counted in these feet. Aristotle already named such patterns in the Poetics (c. 335 BCE), and Fussell's Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965) gives the modern account used in English criticism. The referent is an abstract rhythmic template in language, counted by the syllable, and it has nothing to do with a limb, a measured distance, or a snail's organ beyond the shared word.[1][2]

Unit
One metrical foot, a fixed group of two or three syllables by stress or length
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by scanning a line, marking stressed and unstressed syllables and grouping them into repeating feet

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meter2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsrhythm4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsscale3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Aristotle. (c. 335 BCE). Poetics (S. H. Butcher, Trans.).
  2. Fussell, P. (1965). Poetic meter and poetic form. New York: Random House.

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