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  • In prosody: Scansion

    …units are the foot, the line, and the stanza. The recurrence of similar feet in a line determines the metre; here there are three lines consisting of four iambic feet (i.e., of four units in which the common pattern is the iamb—an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable), which…

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