Antibacchius Knowpia

Metrical feet and accents
Disyllables
◡ ◡	pyrrhic, dibrach
◡ –	iamb
– ◡	trochee, choree
– –	spondee
Trisyllables
◡ ◡ ◡	tribrach
– ◡ ◡	dactyl
◡ – ◡	amphibrach
◡ ◡ –	anapaest, antidactylus
◡ – –	bacchius
– – ◡	antibacchius
– ◡ –	cretic, amphimacer
– – –	molossus
	See main article for tetrasyllables.
	v; t; e;

An antibacchius 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.

Example:

Blind luck is

loved more than

hard thinking.

Referenced edit

Anthon, C. (1844). A System of Latin Prosody and Metre, etc. Harper & Bros. p. 134. Retrieved 2021-04-29.