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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...
- (1939) by T. S. Eliot, a
number of Dr.
Seuss books,
among other examples.
Anapestic tetrameter Scansion ἀνάπαιστος. Liddell,
Henry George; Scott, Robert;...
- four
metrical feet. However, the
particular foot can vary, as follows:
Anapestic tetrameter: "And the
sheen of
their spears was like
stars on the sea"...
- of
three two-syllable
meters alongside trochaic and spondaic) or
dactylic (one of two three-syllable
meters alongside anapestic). Portal:
Poetry v t e...
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parabases (in
either anapestic or
trochaic rhythms);
informal debates barely above the
level of
ordinary dialogue (typically iambic).
Anapestic rhythms are naturally...
- children's book
written by Dr.
Seuss in 1950. The book is
written in
anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's
usual verse type, and
illustrated in Seuss's pen-and-ink...
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anapestic pair, each word is an
anapest and has the
first and
second syllables unstressed and the
third syllable stressed. At this time, no
anapestic...
- -] e.g. 334–45 and
ending with
anapestic tetrameter [..-..-] [..-..-] [..-..-] [..--] e.g. 346–57 but with 1
anapestic pnigos added (358–64) line 334...
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Shakespearean iambic pentameter and the
Homeric dactylic hexameter to the
anapestic tetrameter used in many
nursery rhymes. However, a
number of variations...
- the
square of the hypotenuse. (W.S. Gilbert, "The
Pirates of Penzance")
Anapestic (acephalous) Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom
faded and fell, and the...
