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
The metres employed by Epicharmus were iambic trimeter, and especially trochaic and anapaestic tetrameter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
If the stresses are placed as above, it is clear that there is a syllable suppressed after the word “forlorn,” a three-syllable foot in the third place, and an anapaestic lilt, “the forlorn.”
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
They were sung to a musical accompaniment, and were composed chiefly in bacchiac, anapaestic, or cretic metres, rapidly interchanging with trochaic lines.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
"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 H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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