| TRIBRACH | A metrical foot of three short or unstressed syllables |
| PYRRHIC | In prosody, a metrical foot of two short or unstressed syllables (7) |
| ANAPAEST | Metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed one (8) |
| TROCHEE | In prosody, a metrical foot of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed one (7) |
| DACTYL | Metrical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short |
| PAEON | A metrical foot of one long syllable and three short ones (5) |
| ANAPESTS | Metrical foot of three syllables |
| ANAPEST | Metrical foot of three syllables |
| IAMBIC | Of a metrical foot of two syllables, one short and one long (6) |
| BREVE | Curved mark used to indicate in dictionaries a short vowel or in poems a short or unstressed syllabl |
| IAMB | Anglicized term for a metrical foot of two syllables (4) |
| ORISON | A prayer of three short words (6) |
| PORTER | Katherine Anne -; author whose books include Ship of Fools and the collection of three short novellas Pale Horse, Pale Rider (6) |
| HAIKU | Brief Japanese poem consisting of three short unrhymed lines |
| ANACRUSIS | One or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse (9) |
| DIBRACH | A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables. |
| ARSIS | Unstressed syllable of a metrical foot |
| SOS | Three short, three long, three short; a clear easily transmittable distress signal and pattern in Morse code, for ships appealing for emergency help, rescue or support (1,1,1) |
| TRISEME | Metrical foot equal to three short syllables (7) |
| SCHWA | A neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables (5) |
