dibrach

NOUN

a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

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/'And YET' /is a complete 'iambus'; but 'anyet' is, like 'spirit', a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the 'arsis' or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second. Literary Remains, Volume 2