Antibacchic

An antibacchic foot has three syllables arranged long-long-short in quantitative meter, or roughly stressed-stressed-unstressed in English accentual verse. It is the reverse of a bacchius. Poets and students usually meet the term when discussing classical meter or lines built from repeated three-syllable feet.

Example

Dark stone, bright flame, soft rain.
Strong hands, sharp eyes, still dusk.

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