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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...
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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...
- 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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analogue analogy A
comparison between two
things that are
otherwise unlike.
anapest A
version of the foot in
poetry in
which the
first two
syllables of a line...
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Koine Gr****.
Except for the
first line, the work's
poetic meter is in
anapests, the most
common form of
verse in the Gr****-speaking
parts of the Roman...
- 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...
