REVERSED FOOT


Meaning of REVERSED FOOT in English

noun

: a foot in which the prevailing cadence of a metrical series or of an adjacent foot is reversed or inverted by exchanging the positions of stressed and unstressed or long and short elements

a trochee in an iambic series is a reversed foot

— compare inversion

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