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In music and prosody, arsis and thesis refer to the stronger and weaker parts of a musical measure or poetic foot. Arsis and thesis were the raising and lowering of the foot in beating of time, or the raising and lowering of the voice in pitch or stress. Accordingly, in music and in Greek scansion arsis is an unaccented note (upbeat),〔.〕 but in Latin and modern poetry it is the stressed syllable (ictus).〔 〕 == Latin and English poetry == In Latin (and Greek) dactylic hexameter, the strong part of a foot is the first syllable — always long — and the weak part is what comes after — two short syllables (dactyl: long—short—short) or one long syllable (spondee: long—long). Because Classical poetry was not based on stress, the arsis is often not stressed; only consistent length distinguishes it. * ''Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs...'' Of arms and a man I sing, who first from the shores of Troy... — Aeneid 1.1 In English, poetry is based on stress, and therefore arsis and thesis refer to the accented and unaccented parts of a foot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arsis and thesis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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