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feminine ending

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feminine ending

In the metre of English poetry, a line ending with an extra, unstressed syllable. In the line ‘O'er the grave where our hero we buried’, there are three anapaestic feet, each foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one. The last syllable, ‘ied’, is not within the pattern. It is unstressed, and therefore a feminine rather than a masculine ending.



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However, the lines that comprise the stanza are loose blank verse, alternating from three to seven feet in length; the fourth and tenth lines have the feminine ending as part of their metrical system.
Leaning Against the Sun by Moore, Lenard D. / African American Review
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