What: "Classical metre, based on syllable-length rather than stress, has a foot called the spondee (//)consisting of two heavy syllables, and one called the pyrrhic (00)consisting of two light syllables, but it can be argued that neither is possible in our stress-based metre, where the stressed syllable is like an atomic nucleus in every foot. Every alleged spondee is either two truncated feet or a normal foot with one syllable relatively stronger than the other. "

Writer: Brian Fewster

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Date: Oct 15 2013 12:44 PM