| SPONDEE | Poet's foot consisting of two stressed syllables |
| ANAPAEST | Metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long one; the reverse of a dactyl (8) |
| CHOLIAMB | Metrical foot consisting of two short syllables between two long ones, chiefly used in classical verse (8) |
| IAMB | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables, a short one followed by a long one (4) |
| IAMBS | Metrical feet consisting of two syllables, a short one followed by a long one |
| METATARSUS | The skeleton of the human foot consisting of five long bones |
| PAEON | In prosody, a metrical foot consisting of one long and three short syllables in any order (5) |
| TROCHEE | Metrical foot consisting of one long and one short syllable |
| IAMBUS | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable (6) |
| IAMBIC | Using metrical feet consisting of one short syllable followed by one long (6) |
| ANAPEST | Metrical foot of two unstressed and one stressed syllable (7) |
| ANAPESTIC | Excited about copies of a poet's foot (9) |
| ASSONANCE | Repetition of vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, in nearby words (9) |
| ALLITERATION | Simultaneous stressed syllables similarly starting so, say? |
| IAMBI | Metrical units with unstressed-stressed syllables. (5) |
| ARSIS | A stressed syllable or part of a metrical foot in classical verse (5) |
| TROCHAIC | Like poet's feet caught in wreckage of chariot |
| ASSONANT | Having the same sound (especially vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables. |
| FEMININE | In poetry, a ____ rhyme is between stressed syllables followed by identical unstressed ones, as in "merrily" and "verily" |
| METRICAL | Mark foreign article to do with poet's feet (8) |
