■ noun a poetic metre approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones.
Origin
C19: coined by the English poet G. M. Hopkins.
■ noun a poetic metre approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones.
Origin
C19: coined by the English poet G. M. Hopkins.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004