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1 | 99% | 4 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 50% | 3 | Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short" | |
3 | 34% | 11 | Poetic foot with short-long-short syllable pattern | |
Short Long Foot Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "IAMB" which means:
- noun
- • A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
An example sentence would be:
- • "In poetry, an iamb is a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, with the first syllable being unstressed and the second syllable stressed."
- • "The phrase 'hello world' is an example of an iamb, with the stress falling on the second syllable of each word."
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Clue Last Found In...
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New York Times19 Sep 1987 | Across 43 | |
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