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Definition of the day : « anapestic »
- As in poetic : adj with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition
- As in poetical : adj poetic
- The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on every third syllable), with modifications.
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Lake » by Sir Walter Scott
- A poetic foot of three syllables which bears the accent on the third syllable is called an anapestic foot.
- Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 » by Charles H. Sylvester
- Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet.
- Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
- Anapestic feet are used freely to improve the music; in fact, they are nearly as numerous as the iambic feet.
- Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
- Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement.
- Extract from : « Rhymes and Meters » by Horatio Winslow
- Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms.
- Extract from : « English Verse » by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
- Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter.
- Extract from : « English Verse » by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
- Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.
- Extract from : « The Green Book » by Mr Jkai
- There is evident a tendency toward the rising verse and the anapestic foot.
- Extract from : « The Translations of Beowulf » by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.
- Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter