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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 Anapests from wikipedia
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example comes from Yeats's The
Wanderings of
Oisin (1889). He inters****s
anapests and iambs,
using six-foot
lines (rather than four feet as above). Since...
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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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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...
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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...
- 317–33
complex solo
lament by
Philocleon mainly choriamb [-..-] to 323 then
anapests [..-],
reflecting a
change in mood. line 317
symmetrical scene (possibly...
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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...
- two
lines of
anapestic trimeter (three
anapests per line),
followed by two
lines of
anapestic dimeter (two
anapests per line),
followed by one line of anapestic...
- 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...
- (Ὑποθῆκαι) were
composed in
elegiac couplets.
Pausanias also
mentions Anapests, a few
lines of
which are
quoted by Dio
Chrysostom and
attributed to Tyrtaeus...
