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- adjective Alternative spelling of
anapestic . - noun Alternative spelling of
anapestic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one
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Examples
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His natural gait on shipboard was a kind of anapaestic dance -- two short steps and a long -- and though the crowd interrupted its cadence and coerced him to a quick bobbing motion, as of a bottle in a choppy sea, it hardly affected his pace.
The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Its poignancy owes a lot, too, to the way the anapaestic rhythms take over in each stanza after the more regular rhythm of the opening line, seeming to exult in the free, swooping flight denied the bird.
Great Regulars: 2084 Rus Bowden 2009
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Its poignancy owes a lot, too, to the way the anapaestic rhythms take over in each stanza after the more regular rhythm of the opening line, seeming to exult in the free, swooping flight denied the bird.
Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Cleon, also, already was among his assailants, making use of the feeling against him as a step to the leadership of the people, as appears in the anapaestic verses of Hermippus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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He uses in them iambic, trochaic and especially dactyllic-anapaestic metres which
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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It consists of sixteen, tetrametric (odd) and trimetric (even), anapaestic lines with a masculine rhyme scheme bcbc.
On Adaptation Nabokov, Vladimir 1969
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Which hung in a murky old niche in the wall -- the anapaestic dance of which breaks in upon the normal iambic movement of the poem with a natural dramatic propriety.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The anapaestic metre of this version should be noted.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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It covers a subtle system of accentuation, anapaestic, which Wesley uses for some of his most moving and most inspired hymns.
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