What does one mean when one says, "I didn't like his tone." or "Don't you dare speak to me in that tone!" or "That song has a happy...

Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...

When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...

Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...

An iamb, trochee and spondee are two-syllabic feet in a verse. A dactyl is a three-syllabic foot in a verse. In a dactylic meter a...