foot ( plural feet)
A group of syllables taken as a unit of poetic *metre in traditional *prosody, regardless of word-boundaries. As applied to English verse, the foot is a certain fixed combination of syllables, each of which is counted as being either stressed (●) or unstressed (○); but in Greek and Latin ... ...
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