- - - - - - Rhythmic Feet This collection sorts words into their patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables So, for instance, you're stuck, you've been desperately trying to find a word, you've decided it must have the rhythm of hard-soft-soft and begin with a sh sound. OK, open up the 'dactyl 100' file page down to the sh words and find, for example, shockingly, sheltering, shrubbery. Of course, you could make up the pattern from shorter, separate words. These lists were compiled by data-crunching the MOBY pronunciation word list. The patterns included here are the ones that yielded significant results. The words are all in CAPS and include proper names and abbreviations and initials - so AC is not pronounced ack, its A C as in A/C The files are tagged with a 0 and 1 code, where - 0 = soft - unaccented 1 = loud - accented Details: iamb = 01 - eg. exact, release trochee = 10 - eg. caring, zestful spondee = 11 - eg. aircraft, deadlock dactyl = 100 - eg. criminal, visitor anapest = 001 - eg. incomplete, misinformed amphibrach = 010 - eg. accepted, regardless primus paeon = 1000 - eg. militancy, violators secundus paeon = 0100 - eg. allowances, professional tertius = paeon = 0010 - eg. insubstantial, unimportant quartus paeon = 0001 = - (only a few) eg. undersubscribed, interviewee There are 10 text files: iamb 01.txt trochee 10.txt spondee 11.txt dactyl 100.txt anapest 001.txt amphibrach 010.txt primus 1000.txt secundus 0100.txt tertius 0010.txt quartus 0001.txt All in one zipfile  Download Zipfile rhythmicfeet.zip - - - - - -  Back to the Word Lists Index
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