antibacchius
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- quantitative metrical pattern
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- bacchius
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An antibacchius (or palimbacchius) is a rare metrical foot used in formal poetry.
In accentual-syllabic verse an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable. Its opposite is a bacchius.
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