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Encyclopedia > Amphimacer

A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented syllables. In verse, a foot is the basic unit of meter used to describe rhythm. ...


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One foot is one pattern such as X / or / X. So, the poem is written in trochee monometer with amphimacer to add a little jog.
You can see the patterns of the feet - amphimacer is the mirror of amphibrach, just as trochee is the mirror of iambus (X /).
Obviously, monometer is not used for longer poems as it will become tedious.
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