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Definition

The smallest metrical unit in verse defined by a specific, recurring pattern of syllabic prominence—typically a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables in stress-timed systems or of long and short units in quantitative systems—used as the building block for a poem's meter and rhythmic organization.