Bacchius

A bacchius (/bəˈkəs/) is a metrical foot used in poetry.

Metrical feet and accents
Disyllables
 pyrrhic, dibrach
 iamb
 trochee, choree
 spondee
Trisyllables
  tribrach
  dactyl
  amphibrach
  anapaest, antidactylus
  bacchius
  antibacchius
  cretic, amphimacer
  molossus
See main article for tetrasyllables.

In accentual-syllabic verse we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this:

da DUM DUM

Example:

When day breaks

the fish bite

at small flies.

The Christmas carol 'No Small Wonder' by Paul Edwards is a fair example of usage.


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