anapaestic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Its slow movement is a full-blown melody, its scherzo trips along in anapaestic rhythm, its finale builds a sonorous castle of tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
The swinging dactylic rhythm is well managed except where the words "descending" and "ascending" occur, and where, in line 24, the metre becomes momentarily anapaestic.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
"My Native Land", a poem by Adam Dickson, describes the Scottish Border with pleasing imagery and bounding anapaestic metre.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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