Meanings
- not comparableHaving two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure.
- not comparablecommunicationsHaving two beats in each foot.
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McGonagall is earnestly trying to gather the resources of a metrical tradition, not subvert it, but the mismatch of duple and triple measure in the first line alone means that, while it’s made of recognisable metrical feet, the line doesn’t feel like it belongs to any specific metrical pattern (iambic, dactylic, anapestic etc) or mode (pastoral, elegy or ballad).
2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12
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adjectiveconsisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
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duple. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/duple
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