English > metrics: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The study of poetic meter and the art of versification. |
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| Synonym | prosody |
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| Category of | Alexandrine | (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet |
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| acatalectic | (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables |
| catalectic | (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot |
| dactylic | Of or consisting of dactyls |
| hypercatalectic | (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot |
| iambic | Of or consisting of iambs |
| measured, metrical, metric | The rhythmic arrangement of syllables |
| meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
| metrical foot, foot, metrical unit | (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
| poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification |
| spondaic | Of or consisting of spondees |
| trochaic | Of or consisting of trochees |
| Broader | poetics | study of poetic works |
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| Spanish | métrica, prosodia |
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| Catalan | mètrica |
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