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Meaning of "arsis"

arsis (noun) - In poetic meter, the arsis is the part of a metrical foot that contains the stressed syllable, often indicated by a raised or accented symbol in scansion
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  • Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
  • The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
  • The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
  • The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.

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Arsis only played four songs.
Other productions from Arsis.
Original Arsis drummer Michael VanDyne returns to the band full-time.
Firewind and Arsis.
Arsis und Thesis oder, wie hat man lateinische Verse gesprochen?
Yoel gamzou new representation worldwide - arsis.
Arsis is an American technical melodic death metal band from Virginia Beach, Virginia, formed in 2000.
Peter kellner, bass new representation worldwide - arsis.
We meet a caesura, every time - after an arsis in the third foot.
I can call him if you want, I wait here, Arsis.
I wait here, Arsis.
I wait here, I know, there is something bothering, Arsis.

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