A metrical foot in poetry consisting of two stressed syllables, the opposite of a pyrrhic foot.
From Greek dicho- (two) + -ee (a metrical unit variant), related to spondee (two stressed syllables). This is a specialized term in classical prosody and meter analysis.
Dichorees are almost never used in English poetry because our language naturally alternates stressed and unstressed syllables, but in ancient Greek and Latin verse, metrical feet like dichorees were carefully manipulated to create different rhythmic effects and emotional weight.
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