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their independent role,
anapaests are
sometimes used as
substitutions in
iambic verse. In
strict iambic pentameter,
anapaests are rare, but they are found...
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fourth lines are
usually anapaestic, or one iamb
followed by one
anapaest. The first,
second and
fifth are
usually either anapaests or amphibrachs. The first...
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romantic story." "The Highwayman" uses
hexameter that
mixes iambs and
anapaests.
Noyes frequently uses alliteration, such as the
phrase "ghostly galleon"...
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stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables—the
opposite is the
anapaest (two
unstressed followed by a
stressed syllable). An
example of dactylic...
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syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables (e.g. an-no-tate, sim-i-lar)
anapaest—two
unstressed syllables followed by one
stressed syllable (e.g. com-pre-hend)...
- length. The most
common feet in
English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and
anapaest. The foot
might be
compared to a bar, or a beat
divided into
pulse groups...
- a
vellum codex from the
fourth or
fifth centuries AD,
showing choral anapaests from Medea,
lines 1087–91; tiny
though it is, the
fragment influences...
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spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡
tribrach – ◡ ◡
dactyl ◡ – ◡
amphibrach ◡ ◡ –
anapaest,
antidactylus ◡ – –
bacchius – – ◡
antibacchius – ◡ – cretic, amphimacer...
- πάροδος) and the stasimon. He
defines the
latter as "a
choral song
without anapaests or trochaics". This
comment about the
absence of
anapest and
trochee has...
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Anapestic tetrameter (British spelling:
anapaestic) is a
poetic meter that has four
anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two
unstressed syllables...
