Molossus (poetry)
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Molossus (poetry)
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A molossus is a metrical foot used in Greek and Latin poetry. It consists of three long syllables. Examples of Latin words constituting molossi are audiri, cantabant, virtutem. In English poetry, syllables are usually categorized as being either stressed or unstressed, rather than long or short, and the unambiguous molossus rarely appears, as it is too easily interpreted as two feet or as having at least one destressed syllable. Perhaps the best example of a molossus is the repeated refrain of n
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