How To Use anapaest In A Sentence
- Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
- This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.
- Ferry's taste for the anapaest can make it hard to read some of his lines as iambic. The Times Literary Supplement
- Upon being challenged to read Eugene Onegin aloud, he started to do this with great gusto, garbling every second word and turning Pushkin's iambic line into a kind of spastic anapaest with a lot of jaw-twisting haws and rather endearing little barks that utterly jumbled the rhythm and soon had us both in stitches. Letters: the Strange Case of Nabokov and Wilson
- But the repetition of ‘call to me’ in its dactylic form makes a continuous anapaestic reading impossible, and the stress dactyls in the following lines makes it clearly inappropriate.
- The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
- He is, perhaps, least unsuccessful in his treatment of the Anapaest: the lines do not lack melody, and the natural flexibility of the metre saves them from extreme monotony, though they would have been more successful had he employed the paroemiac line as a solemn and resonant close to the march of the dimeter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
- Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
- Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
- Significantly both these phrases stand out as exceptions to the anapaestic metre.