- 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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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...
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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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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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found in the plays.
Tetrameter catalectic verses:
These are long
lines of
anapests,
trochees or
iambs (where each line is
ideally measured in four dipodes...
- 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...
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called feet, and this
particular pattern (weak weak STRONG) is
called an
anapest. A line with four feet is said to be in
tetrameter (tetra-, from the Gr****...
- 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...
- an
extra syllable in the
final foot of the line (this can be read as an
anapest (dada DUM) or as an elision).
Percy Bysshe S****ey also used
skilful variation...
