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Anapest
Anapest An"a*pest, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e.,
a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; ? back
+ ? to strike.]
1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the
first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented
([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In
Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English in-ter-vene", are
examples of anapests.
2. A verse composed of such feet.
Meaning of Anapest from wikipedia
- 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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almost every line, in
different positions, an iamb is
replaced with an
anapest. "The Road Not Taken"
reads conversationally,
beginning as a kind of photographic...
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stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables, the
opposite of an
anapest,
sometimes called antidactylus to
reflect this fact. A
dactylic foot is...
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using terms borrowed from the
metrical feet of poetry: iamb (weak–strong),
anapest (weak–weak–strong),
trochee (strong–weak),
dactyl (strong–weak–weak), and...
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irregularly and can be
better described based on
patterns of
iambs and
anapests, feet
which he
considers natural to the language.
Actual rhythm is significantly...
- In the
Berlin version Bely
changed the foot of his
rhythmic prose from
anapest to amphibrach, and
removed ironical p****ages
related to the revolutionary...
- song
without anapaests or trochaics". This
comment about the
absence of
anapest and
trochee has been
interpreted to mean that the
music was not
based on...
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anapestic meter, and
edited the
fragment to show what it
would look like in
anapests with
different line-breaks.
Hanson based his
translation of this fragment...
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pattern name ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ
tribrach – ᴗ ᴗ
dactyl ᴗ – ᴗ
amphibrach ᴗ ᴗ –
anapaest (
anapest) ᴗ – –
bacchius – ᴗ –
cretic – – ᴗ
antibacchius – – – molossus...
- 317–33
complex solo
lament by
Philocleon mainly choriamb [-..-] to 323 then
anapests [..-],
reflecting a
change in mood. line 317
symmetrical scene (possibly...
