Anaclasis (poetry)

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title: Anaclasis (poetry)
text: Anaclasis is a feature of poetic metre, in which a long and a short syllable exchange places in a metrical pattern. Ancient metricians used the term principally of the Greek galliambic rhythm | u u – u | – u – – |, which they believed was derived from a regular ionic dimeter | u u – – | u u – – | by a reversal of syllables 4 and 5, creating metra of unequal length | u u – u | and | – – u – |. Although the original meaning of the term anaclasis referred to situations when the substitution of u –
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