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 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)
In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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 Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.
"The Wanderer's Return," by Andrew Francis Lockhart, is a beautiful piece of anapaestic verse whose flow is as pleasing as its sentiment.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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