a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember').
The substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.
An unstressed syllable or cluster of syllables within a given metrical unit that is omitted from the scansion pattern in sprung rhythm.
A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter, determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line.
Having one or more syllables in addition to those found in a standard metrical unit or line of verse.
A metrical unit of quantitative verse consisting of two or more cola.
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