| 单词 | metrical foot |
| 例句 | For Thomas and Frost that entailed a fidelity to the phrase rather than to the metrical foot, to the rhythms of speech rather than those of poetic conventions, to what Frost liked to call "cadence". Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Iambus, ī-am′bus, n. a metrical foot of two syllables, the first short and the second long, as in L. fĭdēs; or the first unaccented and the second accented, as in deduce—also Iamb′.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Cretan, belonging to Crete: a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable between two long.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Quintilian, who recognized that prose has often metrical feet that read like verse, thought it ugly and inelegant that an entire verse should appear in a prose composition. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z When we attempt to walk with metrical feet, which are shod with winged shoes, we get on very well. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. His own I have tried in vain to reduce by scansion into any metrical feet at all; they look like nothing on earth, and sound like anapests broken up and driven wrong.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History When the regular accent is felt, the lines can easily be separated into their metrical feet. English: Composition and Literature It may be worth while to give some correct examples in English of the principle metrical feet:— Pyrrhic or Dibrach, u u = bŏdy, spĭrĭt. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Corresponding to the musical bar there is the metrical foot; to the musical phrase, the logical phrase; to the musical cadence, a similar melodious flow of word-sounds. The Principles of English Versification And others remarked, with superior smiles, While dividing the metrical feet into miles, That the thing seemed quite simple, without any doubt, But the anagrams in it would need thinking out. The Glugs of Gosh Iambus, a metrical foot, consisting of two syllables, of which the first is short and the second long, or in which the stress is on the second. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge It may be worth while to give some correct examples in English of the principal metrical feet:— Pyrrhic or Dibrach, u u =body, spirit. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Even if we allowed him imagination, it must be only on the lower plane of prose; for of verse as anything more than so many metrical feet he had not the faintest notion. Among My Books First Series |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。