Bacchius

Foot in Bacchius A trisyllable foot consisting of a short vowel followed by two long vowels in quantitative meter or
an unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables in qualitative meter found in English verse is called the Bacchius
as shown in the table below.

Antibacchius
Example of the use of this Antibacchius is shown below in the scansion of the first seven verses of the first stanza
of the “Ode to Black Pudding and Souse”. Those verses containing the Antibacchius foot are italicized. Take a look

Small chattel-house where she was born and raised In Maycock's village, her ancestral home; Bare-footed youth
on Sunday evenings did walk Rope leashed black-belly sheep and goats to graze Weeds and grass on dust roads with
out sidewalk; Mindful of cane-fields that grow planters' cash, As arrowed canes swayed in breeze before crExample of the
use of this Antibacchius is shown below in the scansion of the first seven verses of the first stanza of the “Ode to Black
Pudding and Souse”. Those verses containing the Antibacchius foot are italicized. Take a look.

Small chattel-house where she was born and raised In Maycock's village, her ancestral home; Bare-footed youth
on Sunday evenings did walk Rope leashed black-belly sheep and goats to graze Weeds and grass on dust roads with
out sidewalk; Mindful of cane-fields that grow planters' cash, As arrowed canes swayed in breeze before cropping
bash;opping bash;