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Bacchic pentameter line

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 line built from five Bacchic feet, also called Bacchiac pentameter

Detailed Definition
A Bacchic pentameter line is a verse line of five bacchic feet (stressed-unstressed-unstressed), yielding a fifteen-syllable structure with a distinctive rhythmic lilt; though atypical in English poetry due to its asymmetry, it may be employed for ritualistic, ecstatic, or deliberately disorienting effects.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bacchic pentameter example: “the STRONG and FIERCE will SHOUT and CRASH and BREAK”; A 10-syllable line built with bacchii; Classical pentameter with bacchiac metre; Modern adaptation of bacchiac pentameter in free verse
Additional Notes
Bacchic pentameter line is a line of verse made up of five Bacchius feet (e.g., ∪--∣∪--∣…), a highly regular and energetic classical metre.
Also Known As
Bacchiac pentameter five-foot Bacchic Bacchic pentline Dionysian pentameter
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