Usually means: Basic rhythmic unit in poetry.
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  1. metrical foot: Vocabulary.com
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  5. metrical foot: Rhymezone
  6. metrical foot: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  7. metrical foot: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. METRICAL FOOT: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metrical foot)

▸ noun:  (prosody) The basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse.

Similar:
foot, metrical unit, half foot, dimeter, tetrameter, heptameter, trimeter, trochee, dipody, octameter, more...

Opposite:
demetric, nonmetrical, unmetered

Types:
iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, pyrrhic, more...

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Similar:
foot, metrical unit, half foot, dimeter, tetrameter, heptameter, trimeter, trochee, dipody, octameter, more...

Opposite:
demetric, nonmetrical, unmetered

Types:
iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, pyrrhic, more...



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