music and prosody, arsis (/ˈɑːrsɪs/; plural arses, /ˈɑːrsiːz/) and thesis (/ˈθiːsɪs/; plural theses, /ˈθiːsiːz/) are respectively the stronger and weaker...

foot must have both an arsis and a thesis, that is, a place where the foot was raised ("arsis") and where it was put down ("thesis") in beating time or...

Arsis is an American death metal band from Virginia Beach, Virginia, formed in 2000. The band is currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Arsis was started...

as a dissertation. Thesis may also refer to: Thesis statement, of a dissertation, essay, or other argumentative work Arsis and thesis, used to refer to...

Anonymus Bellermanni), they represent an 'arsis', which has been taken to mean a kind of 'upbeat' ('arsis' means 'raising' in Greek); Armand D'Angour...

composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, imitations of the form since the Middle Ages typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest...

This is a glossary of poetry terms. Accent Vedic accent Arsis and thesis: the first and second half of a foot Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry...

form of meter used in Ancient Greek epic and didactic poetry: 19  as well as in epic, didactic, satirical, and pastoral Latin poetry: 90 . Its name is...

Angelo O. (2006). The Latin Saturnian and Italic Verse. Program in Indo-European Studies (PIES) (Ph.D. thesis). Los Angeles, CA: University of California...

The Iambic trimeter, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English...

than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English...

halting iambic, is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Greek and Latin poetry in the classical period. Choliambic verse is sometimes called...

human feet in dancing and/or marching, Arsis signifying the lifting of a foot, and Thesis its placement. In the Greek scheme Thesis was the dominant part...

Greek and Latin metre is an overall term used for the various rhythms in which Greek and Latin poems were composed. The individual rhythmical patterns...

found in iambic and trochaic meters, and also in anapestic, dochmiac and sometimes in cretic, bacchiac, and ionic meters. In iambic and trochaic meters...

trimeter, synizesis frequently occurs at either the arsis (second syllable) of the first foot, or the thesis (first syllable) of the third foot. The word "Θησέως"...

poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important...

and unstressed (x). This is the most common way to assign the rhythm and to determine the type-line, or foot. After applying the appropriate arsis or...

toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -⁠KAR-; UK: /tɒˈkɑːriən/ to-KAR-ee-ən), also known as the Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages, are an extinct branch of...

dealing with love and wine. His later Greek imitators (whose surviving poems are known as the Anacreontea) took up the same themes and used the Anacreontic...

character-type) that appears repeatedly in stories across time and space. aristeia argument arsis and thesis asemic writing aside assonance astrophic (of one or...

final syllable). The metre typically has resolution in the last metron, and often elsewhere, leading to a run of short syllables at the end. An example...

Porson's Law states that, if the third anceps (i.e. the bolded x above) is long and followed by a word break, then it must be a monosyllable. A simpler summary...

quantitative poetic metres, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, and classical Persian, an anceps (plural ancipitia or (syllabae) ancipites) is...

meter in classical Greek and Latin poetry. The glyconic line is the most basic and most commonly used form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with...

sorbetto Arioso Arpeggio Arrangement Ars antiqua Ars nova Ars subtilior Arsis and thesis Art music Art song Articulation Artificial harmonic Athenaeus (musician)...

142–157. Exon, Charles (1906). "The Relation of the Resolved Arsis and Resolved Thesis in Plautus to the Prose Accent". The Classical Review Vol. 20...

Sophocles (291×), and Euripides (1166×)—, but there are also examples in satyric drama and Aristophanes, where they are often paratragic in tone and impassioned...

quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry, and the newer of which are syllabic or accentual-syllabic and used in medieval and modern...

which the arsis and thesis are equal (as in the Dactyl and Anapaest), and the diplasion, in which the arsis is twice the length of the thesis (as in the...