- An
anapaest (/ˈænəpiːst, -pɛst/; also
spelled anapæst or anapest, also
called antidactylus) is a
metrical foot used in
formal poetry. In
classical quantitative...
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stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables—the
opposite is the
anapaest (two
unstressed followed by a
stressed syllable). An
example of dactylic...
- length. The most
common feet in
English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and
anapaest. The foot
might be
compared to a bar, or a beat
divided into
pulse groups...
- Examples: When here // the
spring // we see,
Fresh green // upon // the tree.
Anapaest Dactyl Tristich Triadic-line
poetry Greene, Roland; Cushman, Stephen; Cavanagh...
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fourth lines are
usually anapaestic, or one iamb
followed by one
anapaest. The first,
second and
fifth are
usually either anapaests or amphibrachs. The first...
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spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡
tribrach – ◡ ◡
dactyl ◡ – ◡
amphibrach ◡ ◡ –
anapaest,
antidactylus ◡ – –
bacchius – ◡ – cretic,
amphimacer – – ◡ antibacchius...
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spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡
tribrach – ◡ ◡
dactyl ◡ – ◡
amphibrach ◡ ◡ –
anapaest,
antidactylus ◡ – –
bacchius – ◡ – cretic,
amphimacer – – ◡ antibacchius...
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spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡
tribrach – ◡ ◡
dactyl ◡ – ◡
amphibrach ◡ ◡ –
anapaest,
antidactylus ◡ – –
bacchius – ◡ – cretic,
amphimacer – – ◡ antibacchius...
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individual amphibrachic foot
often appears as a
variant within, for instance,
anapaestic meter. It is the main foot used in the
construction of the limerick, as...
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syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables (e.g. an-no-tate, sim-i-lar)
anapaest—two
unstressed syllables followed by one
stressed syllable (e.g. com-pre-hend)...
