metre

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: metre

1	n	the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
2	n	rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: metre

Type of:: rhythmicity
the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music

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the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse; scansion
analysis of verse into metrical patterns; common measure, common meter
the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad; foot, metrical foot, metrical unit
(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm; dactyl
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables; iamb, iambus
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables; anapaest, anapest
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables; amphibrach
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember'); trochee
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables; spondee
a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables; dibrach, pyrrhic
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

Type of:: poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern
(prosody) a system of versification

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