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
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 Sellar, W. Y.
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 anapaestic metre of this version should be noted.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank
Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
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