That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The emphasis of the rhyme, coming as it does after the rushing anapest, is to settle the word ‘knew’ much deeper in the voice than the word ‘yew.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing] Reference
With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
"anapest" comes from a Greek verb which means "strike back"; an anapest is a reversed dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
If she was going to be honest, she had loved the way Seth knew what an anapest was, and a canzone. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
INVERSION, the substitution of a trochee for an iamb or of a dactyl for an anapest (or vice versa), 51, 187 ff.; a misleading term; see. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
SUBSTITUTION (1) replacing one rhythmic unit by its temporal equivalent, as an iamb by an anapest or by a trochee, etc., 20; called also. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Isocrates about thirty verses, most of them senarian, and some of them anapest, which in prose have a more disagreeable effect than any others. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
The chapter then proceeds to consider the four most common metrical patterns: in relative order of importance, the iambic, the anapest, the trochee and the dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
A limerick traditionally uses anapest meter -- that is, with metrical feet consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, and with three feet each for lines 1, 2, and 5, and two feet each for lines 3 and 4. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest] Reference
The first two iambs are followed by something almost like a qualitative anapest (in English we do meter based on stress, and here the stress falls on the first syllable of grandeur; in Greek and Latin the stress is based on quality = the length of the syllable, and you can see how much longer than ‘with’ and ‘the’ is the ‘grand’ of grandeur). From Wordnik.com. [God’s Grandeur « Unknowing] Reference
From Ashbery to Wordsworth, haiku to epic, anapest to terza rima. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is hovering between the form of the first two feet and the anapest of the last foot. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
But Voltaire now quit the anapest and dactyl and devoted his best hours to taking fencing lessons. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
Iambus, defined, 272; the common foot of English verse, 272, 279; interchangeable with anapest, 278. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
By rapid utterance two syllables are often equal to one, and in this way an anapest is frequently used with the. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
In his youth he had commended Beza in some anapest verses; extolling him as one of the most zealous defenders of the truth: he afterwards retracted this elogium, and wished it buried in eternal oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works] Reference
He comprehends under three different feet every combination of long and short syllables which he supposes can be found in English verse, to wit: 1. a long and a short, which is the trochee of the Greeks and Romans; 2. a short and a long, which is their iambus; and 3. two short and a long, which is their anapest. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
Is this an attempt at dactylian verse? or shall we consider it still as anapestic, wherein either the two unaccented syllables which should begin the verse are omitted; or else the two which should end it are, in reciting, transposed to the next verse to complete the first anapest of that, as in Virgil in the following instance, the last syllable of the line belongs to the next, being amalgamated with that into one. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
So I guess I’m more trochaic while all y’all are anapest. —. From Wordnik.com. [Barack’s Prosody Problem: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
With anapest and dactyls. From Wordnik.com. [VERTKRIEG] Reference
His heart was in the diphthong and anapest. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
Rhyming too much anapest-a. From Wordnik.com. [Latest amIright Song Parodies] Reference
Besides the infinite variety of the lyrical strophes, which the poet invented for each occasion, they have also a measure to suit the transition in the tone of mind from the dialogue to the lyric, the anapest; and two for the dialogue itself, one of which, by far the most usual, the iambic trimeter, denoted the regular progress of the action, and the other, the trochaic tetrameter, was expressive of the impetuousness of passion. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference
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