How Natural Gas Works. Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that we use for heating, cooking, electricity production, transportation, and as an industrial feedstock. In 2012, it made up 30 percent of the U.S. energy mix, and it continues to be a readily available domestic resource as a result of recent discoveries and advances in extraction technology. [1]
â¢ METRICAL FOOT (noun). The noun METRICAL FOOT has 1 sense: 1. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. Familiarity information: METRICAL FOOT used as a noun is very rare.
An iamb (pronounced EYE-am) is a metrical foot in poetry. What is a foot? A foot is the unit of stressed and unstressed syllables that determines what we call the meter, or rhythmic measure, in the lines of a poem.