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"Metrical foot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dactylic (triple) rhymes, and they are remarkably abundant and skillful in Mr. Lowell's "Fable for the Critics": even the unrhymed iambic hexameter of the Helena occurs now and then in Milton's Samson Agonistes. It is true that the metrical foot into which the German language most naturally falls is the trochaic, while in English it is the iambic: it is true that German is rich, involved, and tolerant of new combinations, while English is simple, ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
Words linked to "Metrical foot" : spondee, pyrrhic, measure, meter, prosody, amphibrach, trochee, beat, anapaest, metre, iambus, dactyl, dibrach, anapest, metrics, cadence, iamb |
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