pyrrhic foot

In prosody, a foot is the basic unit of metrical measurement in poetry. The type and number of feet in a line determine the poem's meter.

A pyrrhic foot is a metrical unit consisting of two short or unaccented syllables. It is one of the 28 feet found in classical verse. While classical metrics were adapted for languages like English, the terminology persists. In English verse, a foot is typically defined by stressed and unstressed syllables. The pyrrhic foot, with its two unstressed syllables (often represented as \u02d8\u02d8), is less common than feet like the iamb (\u02d8\u00b4) or trochee (\u00b4\u02d8).12