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Antonyms for anapestic

Grammar : Adj
Spell : an-uh-pest
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn əˌpɛst


Definition of anapestic

Origin :
  • 1690s, from Latin anapaesticus, from Greek anapaistikos, from anapaistos (see anapest).
  • As in poetic : adj with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition
  • As in poetical : adj poetic
Example sentences :
  • 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

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