metrical unit

Questions about metrical unit

What does metrical unit mean?

metrical unit means "(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm".

What is another word for metrical unit?

Close synonyms include metrical foot, foot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metrical unit a common word?

metrical unit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.