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Long-short-short repeating form

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 poetic form based on the recurring dactylic (long-short-short) foot

Detailed Definition
Long-short-short repeating form describes a poetic structure built on the consistent recurrence of the dactylic foot (stressed-unstressed-unstressed), creating a lilting, triple-time rhythm that is rare in English but evocative when used.
Example
Example in poetry:
Long-short-short repeating form: Dactylic trimeter patterns; “Beautifully wandering” style; Poems with anapestic meters; Repeated feet of one long and two shorts
Additional Notes
Long-short-short repeating form: A line or poem whose metrical structure consists mainly of the dactylic foot (–∪∪), with the pattern repeating across the line; a form of continuous falling meter (7132).
Also Known As
Dactylic villanelle Triple-rhythm nineteen-liner Falling pattern villanelle Long-short-short repeating verse
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