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quadruple foot

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 four feet, often dactylic or trochaic

Detailed Definition
Quadruple foot refers to a metrical line composed of four feet, typically used interchangeably with “tetrameter”; it provides a balanced, rhythmic structure common in ballads, hymns, and lyrical verse across many poetic traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Greek poetry, a quadruple foot might be four dactyls: “Hickory dickory dock the”; In English, Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” uses trochaic tetrameter (quadruple foot); A quadruple foot in iambic: “To be or not to be” (four iambs); In “The Raven,” Poe’s trochaic octameter contains quadruple foot segments; Student example: “Lightly, brightly, swiftly, nightly” as quadruple trochaic foot.
Additional Notes
quadruple foot: A metrical foot consisting of four syllables (e.g., the epitrite or the paeon); common in classical verse but rare in English accentual-syllabic poetry.
Also Known As
Four-stress foot Quadruple measure Tetra-syllabic unit Four-beat foot Dactylion
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