Cretic
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Cretic
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A cretic is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long. In Greek poetry, lines made entirely of cretic feet are less common than other metres. An example is Alcman 58. However, any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition. In other words, a poetic line might have two iambs and two trochees, with a cretic foot in between. In later poets the cretic foot could be resolved into a paeonic or sometimes even five short syllables. In Latin, cretics wer
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Metrical foot
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