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One or more syllables at the beginning of a line of poetry that are regarded as preliminary to and not a part of the metrical pattern of that line.

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  • 3. The first word of “The Star-Spangled Banner” “Oh” is an example of the literary device known as anacrusis, a lead-in syllable or syllables that precede the first full...
  • This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it.
  • Similar combinations, still freer, with frequent anacrusis as well, are characteristic of Swinburne's Hesperia; e. g.
  • If the first two syllables be regarded as anacrusis, the first line would be trochaic, with a dactyl substituted for a trochee in the second foot.
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