An anapaest (/ˈænəpiːst, -pɛst/; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative...

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...

using terms borrowed from the metrical feet of poetry: iamb (weak–strong), anapest (weak–weak–strong), trochee (strong–weak), dactyl (strong–weak–weak), and...

stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, the opposite of an anapest, sometimes called antidactylus to reflect this fact. A dactylic foot is...

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...

In the Berlin version Bely changed the foot of his rhythmic prose from anapest to amphibrach, and removed ironical passages related to the revolutionary...

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...

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...

pattern name ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ tribrach – ᴗ ᴗ dactyl ᴗ – ᴗ amphibrach ᴗ ᴗ – anapaest (anapest) ᴗ – – bacchius – ᴗ – cretic – – ᴗ antibacchius – – – molossus...

317–33 complex solo lament by Philocleon mainly choriamb [-..-] to 323 then anapests [..-], reflecting a change in mood. line 317 symmetrical scene (possibly...

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 Greek...

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 Shelley also used skilful variation...

extinguish pneumatic, rheumatic In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable...

anapestic meter, and edited the fragment to show what it would look like in anapests with different line-breaks. Hanson based his translation of this fragment...

pact pae- strike Greek παίειν (paíein), (paistos) anapaest, anapaestic, anapest, anapestic paed-, ped- child Greek παῖς, παιδός (paîs, paidós), παιδικός...

(long) and brevis (short) and are given the names trochee, iamb, dactyl, anapest, spondaic and tribrach, although trochee, dactyl and spondaic were much...

characteristic feet of English verse are the iamb in two syllables and the anapest in three. (See Metrical foot for a complete list of the metrical feet and...

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...

structured symmetrically in two sections, each half comprising long verses of anapests that are introduced by a choral song and that end in a pnigos. In the first...

pact pae- strike Greek παίειν (paíein), (paistos) anapaest, anapaestic, anapest, anapestic paed-, ped- child Greek παῖς, παιδός (paîs, paidós), παιδικός...

Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-477-30420-4. Hubbard, T.K (1991). "Recitative Anapests and the Authenticity of Prometheus Bound". American Journal of Philology...

Short-long (iamb) Long-short-short (dactyl)[citation needed] Short-short-long (anapest)[citation needed] Long-long (spondee) Short-short (pyrrhic) Rhythmic modes...

Agons have a predictable poetic structure, with speeches in long lines of anapests framed within a pair of symmetrical songs (strophe and antistrophe). There...

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(Ὑποθῆκαι) were composed in elegiac couplets. Pausanias also mentions Anapests, a few lines of which are quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus...

the four downbeats of trochaic ballad; it is read most naturally with anapests at the start of line 1 and at the beginning and end of line 3. Stanzas...

Koine Greek. Except for the first line, the work's poetic meter is in anapests, the most common form of verse in the Greek-speaking parts of the Roman...

important element in Old Comedy. Usually it is conducted in long verses of anapests divided into two symmetrical sections (epirrhema and antepirrhema) and...

Go" for the critically acclaimed Car Plays series. His plays, including Anapest, Happy Fun Family, The Size of Pike, Remember Frank Zappa, and others,...

which a debate is conducted in long lines, typically anapests. In a few cases however anapests are used to indicate arguments that the poet wants to...