Unstressed

Entertainment / Literature / Unstressed: Lightly stressed as opposed to heavily stressed--i.e., a syllable that has little prominence when spoken aloud.
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Isochronous Metre

Lifestyle / Poetry / Isochronous Metre: All stressed syllables are separated in isochronous metre by equal duration of time no matter how many slacks or unstressed syllables occur between them. MORE

Feminine Rhyme

Lifestyle / Poetry / Feminine Rhyme: Gendered expression for rhymes ending in one or more unstressed syllables, such as 'fruity' and 'booty.' the expressions light, weak or multi-syllable rhyme avoid the sexist bias. MORE

Accentual-Syllabic Verse

Lifestyle / Poetry / Accentual-Syllabic Verse: Lines whose rhythm arises by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. Most english poems from the renaissance to the late eighteenth century are though MORE

Meter

Science / Chemistry / Meter: The meter is the basic unit of length in the SI system of units, defined as the distance light travels through a vacuum in exactly 1/299792458 seconds. 1 m = 39.37 inches. Meters are abbreviated as 'm MORE

Arsis

Entertainment / Literature / Arsis: In classical metrical analysis, Greeks referred to the stressed syllable in a metrical foot as a thesis, and the unstressed syllable in a metrical foot as an arsis. Unfortunately, the Roman analysts u MORE

Ictus

Entertainment / Literature / Ictus: (Latin, 'blow,' or 'stroke') An artificial stress or diacritical accent placed over the top of particular syllables in a line of poetry to indicate which syllables the poet wants the reader to stress MORE