antibacchius
Sign in to saveAn antibacchius (or palimbacchius) is a rare metrical foot used in formal poetry.
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It is catalogued under the topic Metrical feet.
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- quantitative metrical pattern
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- bacchius
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An antibacchius (or palimbacchius) is a rare metrical foot used in formal poetry.
In accentual-syllabic verse an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable. Its opposite is a bacchius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “antibacchius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.