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	Foot (prosody) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In verse, a foot is the basic unit of meter used to describe rhythm.
		A foot is described by the character and number of syllables it contains: in English, feet are named for the combination of accented and unaccented syllables; in other languages such as Latin and Greek, the duration of the syllable (long or short) is measured.
		trochee or choree: A metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metrical_foot (304 words)

	'FOOT' @ encyclopaediaOnline: the FREE online encyclopaedia (encyclopedia), dictionary, and grammar reference site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails.
		That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
		Foot is often used adjectively, signifying of or pertaining to a foot or the feet, or to the base or lower part.
	www.encyclopaediaonline.com /Foot.html (760 words)

	Meter in English poetry the metrical foot
		The metrical foot is the basic unit of meter.
		The meter of a poem is determined by the predominant metrical foot, and by the number of feet per line that predominates in the poem.
		The new poetry that began to emerge in England in the fourteenth century, as a consequence of the introduction of French metrical patterns, used the accentual-syllabic metrical structure, the basic unit of which is the foot.
	nv.essortment.com /metricalfoot_rxjm.htm (451 words)

	A Beginner's Guide to Prosody: Part II (Meter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A poem's metrical pattern is determined by scanning the poem.
		A metrical foot usually (though not always) consists of one accented syllable and one or two slack syllables.
		Metrical poems will usually be quite regular, but in order to provide special emphasis in some places or to avoid monotony, poets often use substitutions in some of a poem's lines.
	www.tinablue.homestead.com /meter.html (1157 words)

	Foot (unit of length) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are twelve (A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot) inches in one foot and three feet in one (The enclosed land around a house or other building) yard.
		The foot as a measure was used in almost all cultures.
		The average foot length is about 9.4 inches (240 (A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter) mm) for current Europeans.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/foot_(unit_of_length).htm (457 words)

	Bio-Buzz.com - Poet Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A metrical foot of three syllables, the first of which is long or accented and the next two short or unaccented.
		In ancient poetry, a metrical foot consisting of four syllables, with the first and third short and the second and fourth long, i.e., two iambs considered as a single foot.
		Metrical lines are named for the type of constituent foot and for the number of feet in the line: monometer (1), dimeter (2), trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7) and octameter (8); thus, a line containing five iambic feet, for example, would be called iambic pentameter.
	www.bio-buzz.com /poet_glossary (9905 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		dactylos "finger," of unknown origin; the metrical use (a long syllable followed by two short ones) is by analogy with the three joints of a finger.
		iambikos, from iambos "metrical foot of one unaccented followed by one accented syllable," from iaptein "to assail" (in words); the meter of invective and lampoon in classical Gk.
		To foot a bill is attested from 1848, from the process of tallying the expenses and writing the figure at the bottom ("foot") of the bill.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=metrical&searchmode=phrase (850 words)

	Greek Meter 101 (Part I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Metrically, breathings and spaces between words in a line of verse are generally invisible.
		Because its dominant foot is the iamb, this is an iambic hexameter.
		#348 is an iambic hexameter with a dactyl in the third and a spondee in the fifth foot.
	pages.zdnet.com /commentateur/greek_meter_101.htm (2114 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Poetry Handbook -- D
		A metrical foot of three syllables, the first of which is long or stressed and the next two short or unstressed.
		A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, with the first and third short and the second and fourth long.
		A metrical foot consisting of five syllables, the first and fourth being short and the second, third and fifth long.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/handbook/d.html (459 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms F through K - Meyer Literature
		Foot The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.
		An iambic foot, which consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable ("away"), is the most common metrical foot in English poetry.
		A spondee is a foot consisting of two stressed syllables ("dead set"), but is not a sustained metrical foot and is used mainly for variety or emphasis.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/glossary_f.htm (1536 words)

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		The resulting syllabification and foot structure, given the vowel-final base, is such that the right edge of the stem aligns with the right edge of a foot.
		If the foot structure of the base were specified in the selectional frame of the allomorphs, this could not be captured.
		The overlong syllable is footed on its own because of }{\scaps\fs24 Gr-Bin}{\fs24, requiring the primary stress foot to have precisely two grid positions.
	roa.rutgers.edu /files/88-0000/roa-88-kager-2.doc (4436 words)

	Meter (poetry)
		Inversion: When a foot of poetry is reversed with respect to the general meter of a poem, it is referred to as an inversion.
		The fifth foot is a dactyl, as it must be, with the ictus this time falling on a grammatically long vowel.
		The foot is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to whole notes and half notes.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Meter_(poetry) (2002 words)

	Meter Glossary
		Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of long, short, short, and long syllables / ' ~ ~ ' /; also an iambic alexandrine line with a spondee or trochee instead of an iambus in the sixth foot.
		Infer the poem's theoretical metrical form (say, that it is a sonnet, villanelle, quatrains, etc.) and the basic rhythm (iambic pentameter, anapestic dimeter, etc.), and encode it on the text.
		By imposing the base metrical scansion, that of the poetic form, you will often de-stress naturally-accented syllables, stress slack syllables, extend the syllables in a word (e.g., pronouncing "actual" as `ak-chew-el' rather than `ak-shal'), or delete syllables from a word by elision (e.g., pronouncing "ever" as `ere').
	www.wam.umd.edu /~redman/243/meter.htm (2621 words)

	Poetry Month \| Glossary of Poetry Terms
		A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in seventeen and to the moon.
		A metrical foot of two syllables, both of which are long (or stressed).
		A metrical foot of two syllables, one long (or stressed) and one short (or unstressed).
	www.factmonster.com /spot/pmglossary1.html (2392 words)

	Professor Justice - British Literature II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Metrical accent denotes the metrical pattern (Ù -) to which writers fit and adjust accented words and rhetorical emphases, keeping the meter as they substitute word-accented feet and tune their rhetoric.
		The metrical unit; in English, an accented syllable with accompanying light syllable or syllables.
		The unit of each pattern is the foot, containing one stressed syllable and one or two light ones.
	www.public.asu.edu /~ssoto/brit_lit/glossary.html (4541 words)

	KOLAM-3 : TAMIL PROSODY-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ai; between the last foot of the second and the first foot of the third line, as well as between the last foot of the third and the first foot of the second line, the linkages are of the iya
		is available in the last line, but in a subordinate from of distribution (second and fourth metrical foot), since the first metrical foot of the line is not involved.
		" in the first metrical foot of the fourth line could also be taken into consideration, but it forms a subordinate form of etukai with "-ra", since there is no identity, but only (accepted) resemblance of sounds).
	www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/indologie/kolam/kolam3/ceyyul1/expl07.html (604 words)

	Poetic Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Caesura (Latin, `cut'): a stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause.
		Foot: the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic metre, usually thought to contain one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable.
		Iamb: a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one.
	unr.edu /homepage/keniston/engl466/terms.htm (745 words)

	METER - Definition
		[n] (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
		A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures.
		It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/meter (366 words)

	Re: my English project!
		anapestic trimeter - anapest: "A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in seventeen and to the moon.
		one spondee - Spondee is "spondee" is "A metrical foot of two syllables, both of which are long (or stressed)." From http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html Accessed May 15, 2003.
		Metrical feet are made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/20/messages/1368.html (545 words)

	Alan Holder. Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line. 1995.
		One reason he doesn't like the foot is that it is arbitrary: foot boundaries, at least as they have traditionally been applied, do not correspond to any intuitive division of language into units of sound or sense.
		For example, the model of the foot Holder attacks, an arbitrary unit that crosses morpheme boundaries, word boundaries, and phrase boundaries with impunity, and has anywhere from zero to two or more stressed syllables, does seem to be motivated only by the need to have names for different verse-forms.
		But metrical phonologists have made it clear that in actual speech stress is context sensitive, and though much of the context that matters is semantic, the rhythmic context is also relevant.
	depts.washington.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/reviews/cooper.html (8705 words)

	Poetry Terms
		Metrical foot of two syllables, the first unstressed or short and the second stressed or long (xx).
		The following traditional terms are accepted to describe metre: foot as the smallest metrical unit consisting of a combination of accented and unaccented syllables.
		A metrical foot of two syllables in which the stressed or long syllable is followed by an unstressed or short syllable.
	courses.washington.edu /ger311/terminology/poetryterm.htm (884 words)

	INTRA - Interactive Tutorial on Rhythm Analysis - 4.5 - Generative Metrics
		Instead of Attridge's o B o B o B o B o B pattern to represent iambic pentameter, generative metrics uses a set of five w s units, each grouped together by a bracket (in conventional analysis, each of these units would be called a foot).
		A LABELING MISMATCH is produced when an s in the stress pattern occurs in a w position of the metrical pattern or a w in the stress pattern occurs in an s position of the abstract metrical norm.
		A line is UNMETRICAL when an s in the verse instance occurs in a metrical w position simultaneously with a bracketing mismatch.
	academic.reed.edu /english/intra/4.5.html (955 words)

	Poetry Definitions
		Foot (feet) - A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any of various set combinations.
		Metonymy - A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power.
		Trochee - A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in season, or of a long syllable followed by a short syllable.
	ctap295.ctaponline.org /~gwilberg/poetrydefinitions.html (1671 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Poetry Handbook -- M
		The horizontal mark (¯) used to indicate a stressed or long syllable in a foot of verse.
		Metrical lines are named for the constituent foot and for the number of feet in the line.
		Used to compensate for the omission of an unstressed syllable in a foot.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/handbook/m.html (303 words)

	Malcolm Hayward
		Both traditional metrics and generative metrics have sought both to describe and define the types of variation that are allowable or possible before a passage is described as "unmetrical" and to explore the effects of such variations on interpretations of the poem.
		A plot of patterns of metrical activation may show systematic patterns of variation among writers in accord with the prevailing verse aesthetics of the period in which they are writing.
		Inversion in the first metrical foot is, however, the most common place for all poets in which a weak syllable may find a strong stress.
	www.english.iup.edu /mhayward/Metrics/Cormetrics.htm (3982 words)

	The Alsop Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The meter of a poem is determined by the kind of metrical "foot" and by the number of feet in a line.
		A metrical foot is a unit of measure made up of accented and unaccented syllables.
		Annie Finch's work on metrics is so interesting, illuminating and complex that it threatens to eclipse her considerable accomplishments as a poet.
	www.alsopreview.com /columns/foley/jfFinch.html (3960 words)

	Evidence for the metrical foot in Spanish
		In metrical phonological terms, one could hypothesize, therefore, that the foot could play a certain role in characterizing the rhythmic structure of Spanish due to the fact that words are associated with word stress.
		Previous studies have, however, questioned the role that the foot can be assumed to play in accounting for Spanish rhythm (e.g.
		However, in the phonetic realisation of the syllables in speech, the phonology of Spanish, including metrical constraints, interacts with this higher level syllable-timing constraint.
	elex.amu.edu.pl /ifa/plm/2003/abs_horne_flores.htm (388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anapest - a metrical foot of three syllables, the third being accented: I am the monarch of all I survey; my right there is none to dispute.
		The foot is further described as iambic, trochaic, dactylic, or anapestic.
		Stress- emphasis or accent on a syllable as distinct from the accent in a metrical composition, or the usual vocal emphasis on a syllable as distinct from the accent in a metrical scheme.
	www.syc.k12.pa.us /~sms/zart/poetry/handbookofliteraryterms.htm (3479 words)

	IULC Publications - Crowhurst (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Megan Crowhurst argues that minimal structure requirements on foot constituents differ depending on whether a foot is introduced by a metrical rule or by an operation of prosodic morphology.
		The difference is attributed to the presence or absence of a head element: the minimum quantitative endowment of a metrical foot is determined by constraints on both a foot template and an obligatory metrical head.
		For this reason, the minimal foot in morphology is determined by constraints only on the relevant foot template without reference to a head.
	www.iub.edu /~iulc/abstracts/Crowhurst93.html (112 words)

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		anapest-- a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one ().
		iambic-- A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable ().
		To be clear, a good synecdoche ought to be based on an important part of the whole and, usually, the part standing for the whole ought to be directly associated with the subject under discussion.
	www.angelo.edu /faculty/jwegner/poetterm.htm (1187 words)

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