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 anapaestic metre was less suited to Latin, and is rarely met with either in the comic poets, or in the fragments of the tragedians.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
Ultra-crepidarius is written in the same anapaestic measure as The Feast of the Poets, but is somewhat longer.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
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 H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
How the cothurns trod majestic, Down the deep iambic lines, And the rolling anapaestic Curled like vapour over shrines!”
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
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