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.
The 'Foot' in Literary Terms refers to two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem. For example, an Iamb is a foot that has two syllables, one unstressed followed by one stressed. an Anapest has three syllables, two unstressed followed by one stressed. The number of metrical feet in a line are described as follows: 1  Dimeter two feet. 2  Trimeter three feet. 3  Tetrameter four feet. 4  Pentameter five feet.