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Alexander Selkirk" (1782),
composed in
anapaestic trimeter: I must
finish my
journey alone An
example of
anapaestic tetrameter is the "A
Visit from St. Nicholas"...
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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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Anapestic tetrameter (British spelling:
anapaestic) is a
poetic meter that has four
anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two
unstressed syllables...
- u – || – x – | – u – | The
following anapaestic metres are
found only in
Plautus but not in Terence:
Anapaestic septenarius (an7): 216
lines | uu – uu...
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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)...
- 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...
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fearsome cat -
Scarface Claw. Like most of Dodd's books, it is
written in
anapaestic verse,
though it
breaks into a more
urgent trochaic form when the dogs...
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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...
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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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Henry Livingston Jr.:
Livingston also
wrote poetry primarily using an
anapaestic metrical scheme, and it is
claimed that some of the
phraseology of "A...
