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The source might be accurately cited, but there seems to be some confusion about ratios: "the iambic (where the ratio of arsis to thesis was 1:2), the dactylic (where it was 2:2) and the paeonic (where it was 3:2).[3]" For example, in an iamb, there is one stressed/arsis and one unstressed/thesis. This is a ratio of 1:1, not 1:2. In an anapest (e.g.) yes 1:2. Perhaps what is meant is 1 arsis per foot of two syllables? 1 arsis:2 syllables? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.157.110.195 (talk) 14:38, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
ioio'm a little unclear as to why this article focuses on quantitative meter, especially as it's written in English - there are few successful examples of quantitative meter in English poetry. This article should focus on stresses and not on syllable length.
I just want to express my appreciation of this line:
rowley (talk) 17:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Broken. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 11:51, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
The link Comprehensive list of feet and colas up to 12 syllables long. Wasdichsoveraenderthat (talk) 11:28, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Admittedly my eyesight isn't what it once was but nevertheless I found it near-impossible to distinguish between the macron and the breve in the examples in this article. In fact, to make sure I had it right, I had to zoom in on the screen - and I never need to do that. I don't know if this is a problem across other pages in Wikipedia relating to meter / scansion but I would suggest that making the macron quite obviously longer than the breve would go a long way to improving clarity. David T Tokyo (talk) 05:48, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that many (if not all) of the metrical symbols used were graphics, not text. Why not stick to U+23d1–23d9? Further, to the best of my knowledge, the ndash is recommended for long feet. CannedMan (talk) 15:52, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Perhaps a few examples would be helpful from people who know this topic, to help complete amateurs (like myself) understand, because the description is not clear for someone not experienced with poetry. Wasdichsoveraenderthat (talk) 11:26, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
These poetic conventions are definitely part of Sanskrit prosody as well. It is even called a 'pada' which is clearly a cognate with the greek/latin term. The meter is so consistent in Vedic poetry that these rules on this page are often used to uncover copyist errors in old manuscripts. I'd imagine metered poetry is fairly ancient in Persian traditions as well. Does anyone have the expertise to include non-greek/latin PIE languages and their use of the metrical foot?Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 20:56, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
At the bottom of the first table, "Metrical feet and accents", is the cross-reference "See main article for tetrasyllables" but there's no link on it. 108.16.118.229 (talk) 01:33, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Most of the different types of metrical feet have their own stub article (e.g., Bacchius, Pyrrhic, and Cretic - obviously some articles are longer than others, but even the longer ones are still on the shorter side compared to the typical article). In an effort to consolidate these various stubs (insert whatever the appropriate Wikipedia editing philosophy is here), perhaps the entire text of each stub article can be subsumed under this article. Alternatively, consider a "List of Metrical Feet" article with the entire text of each stub article placed in there. Jafonte01 (talk) 14:26, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 22:13, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Foot (prosody) → Metrical foot – WP:NCDAB says natural disambiguation is generally preferred over parenthetical disambiguation, and in this case, it would be consistent with the existing Category:Metrical feet. The term "metrical foot" is already used in several other articles, and it gets the most page views of any redirect to the current title (about 2.8x that of Foot (poetry)). Google Ngram Viewer also seems to indicate it is the most common of a few alternatives. PleaseStand (talk) 07:59, 19 January 2024 (UTC)