Plural of dipody; metrical units consisting of two metrical feet or a pattern of two stressed syllables.
From 'dipody' (a two-foot metrical unit) plus standard English plural '-ies', referring to multiple instances of two-foot verse patterns.
When poetry teachers talk about scanning verse for dipodies, they're identifying the double-beat rhythmic units that give poems their musicality and memorability.
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