anapaestic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Dr Seuss's folksy twang, locked into the anapaestic tetrameter that became his calling card, and rat-a-tat, rat-a-ratted into the heads of toddlers from Miami to Minneapolis, might seem to have something quintessentially Yankee about it.
From The Guardian
They were sung to a musical accompaniment, and were composed chiefly in bacchiac, anapaestic, or cretic metres, rapidly interchanging with trochaic lines.
From Project Gutenberg
This is in Hunt’s reformed heroic couplet: the rest are in a chirruping and gossiping anapaestic sing-song which is perhaps the writer’s most congenial vein.
From Project Gutenberg
He occasionally suppressed a short syllable at the close of the line, and more rarely in the early part, with the result that an anapaestic lilt of some effectiveness makes its appearance.
From Project Gutenberg
The metre also lacks uniformity, veering from iambic to anapaestic form.
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