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Bacchiac trimeter

Meter
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A metrical line composed of three bacchiac feet (u – –), creating a rhythm that begins lightly and ends with strong stress.

Detailed Definition
Bacchiac trimeter is a metrical line composed of three bacchiac feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables (u / /); though rare in English, it appears in experimental or accentual verse to create a driving, emphatic rhythm.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bacchiac trimeter has three bacchiac feet per line (¯˘˘); example: “Drink to the dawn, laugh at the sky, live like you’ll die.”
Additional Notes
Three-foot line using bacchiac metrical foot pattern. Brief, emphatic line length. Classical tradition. Related to bacchiac verse and quantitative meter. Experiment with stress patterns in accentual-syllabic verse.
Also Known As
Three-foot Bacchic Bacchic trimeter line three-unit Bacchiac Bacchic three-measure
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