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Anapestic

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an·a·pest also an·a·paest  (n-pst)
n.
1. A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen.
2. A line of verse using this meter; for example, "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house" (Clement Clarke Moore).
[Latin anapaestus, from Greek anapaistos : ana-, ana- + paiein, pais-, to strike (so called because an anapest is a reversed dactyl); see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.]
ana·pestic adj.
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Adj.1.anapestic - (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one
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His command of different meters is marvelous; he uses twice as many as Browning, who is perhaps second to him in this respect, and his most characteristic ones are those of gloriously rapid anapestic lines with complicated rime-schemes.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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