Arsis and thesis
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Arsis and thesis
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In music and prosody, arsis and thesis are respectively the stronger and weaker parts of a musical measure or poetic foot. However, because of contradictions in the original definitions, writers use these words in different ways. In music, arsis is an unaccented note (upbeat), while the thesis is the downbeat. However, in discussions of Latin and modern poetry the word arsis is generally used to mean the stressed syllable of the foot, that is, the ictus. Since the words are used in contradictory
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Accented and unaccented parts of a poetic foot, respectively, in prosody
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