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...
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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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In the Berlin version Bely changed the foot of his rhythmic prose from anapest to amphibrach, and removed ironical passages related to the revolutionary...
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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...
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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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pattern name ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ tribrach – ᴗ ᴗ dactyl ᴗ – ᴗ amphibrach ᴗ ᴗ – anapaest (anapest) ᴗ – – bacchius – ᴗ – cretic – – ᴗ antibacchius – – – molossus...
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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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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...
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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...
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extinguish pneumatic, rheumatic In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable...
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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...
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pact pae- strike Greek παίειν (paíein), (paistos) anapaest, anapaestic, anapest, anapestic paed-, ped- child Greek παῖς, παιδός (paîs, paidós), παιδικός...
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(long) and brevis (short) and are given the names trochee, iamb, dactyl, anapest, spondaic and tribrach, although trochee, dactyl and spondaic were much...
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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...
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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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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...
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pact pae- strike Greek παίειν (paíein), (paistos) anapaest, anapaestic, anapest, anapestic paed-, ped- child Greek παῖς, παιδός (paîs, paidós), παιδικός...
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Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-477-30420-4. Hubbard, T.K (1991). "Recitative Anapests and the Authenticity of Prometheus Bound". American Journal of Philology...
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Short-long (iamb) Long-short-short (dactyl)[citation needed] Short-short-long (anapest)[citation needed] Long-long (spondee) Short-short (pyrrhic) Rhythmic modes...
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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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anemia (AmE) anaesthesia anæsthesia anesthesia (AmE) anapaest anapæst anapest (AmE) antennae antennæ antennas[2] archaeology archæology archeology (AmE)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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important element in Old Comedy. Usually it is conducted in long verses of anapests divided into two symmetrical sections (epirrhema and antepirrhema) and...
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Go" for the critically acclaimed Car Plays series. His plays, including Anapest, Happy Fun Family, The Size of Pike, Remember Frank Zappa, and others,...
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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...
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