anapestic
- a word derived from anapest.
Example Sentences
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“Well done! You are natural-born poets, each and every one of you. Of course, iambic pentameter should not be confused with anapestic tetrameter, as I am sure you already know. Would anyone care to demonstrate?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
There is evident a tendency toward the ‘rising verse’ and the anapestic foot.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
From reading the whole poem we know that the movement is anapestic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
