How To Use Anapaest In A Sentence
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Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
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This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.
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Ferry's taste for the anapaest can make it hard to read some of his lines as iambic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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
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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.
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The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
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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
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Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
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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
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Significantly both these phrases stand out as exceptions to the anapaestic metre.
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Every boy or girl finds the metre imperfect, but the pedant comes to its defence with a tribrachys or an anapaest, and sets it right at once by applying to one language the rules of another.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Again, Pheneos is a dactyl in lxviii. 111, while Satrachus is an anapaest in xcv.
Poems and Fragments
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Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
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Again, _Pheneos_ is a dactyl in lxviii. 111, while _Satrachus_ is an anapaest in xcv.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
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Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.
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Sometimes, to relieve the monotony, she threw in a four-, six- or even seven-foot line, and her ‘dactyls’ are often amphibrachs or anapaests.
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Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
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The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
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Iambic, Trochaic, and Anapaestic verses are further designated as dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, according to _the number of dipodies_ (pairs of feet) which they contain.
New Latin Grammar
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Ferry's taste for the anapaest can make it hard to read some of his lines as iambic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The skilful application of the anapaest for the production of the brilliant gallop of 'Lochinvar' has been equalled only by Scott himself in his 'Bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee. '
Marmion
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And in this way he made that sort of anapaest which is called the Aristophanic anapaest.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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The lines gradually increase from a trochaic monometer catalectic to a complicated decamter of spondees, anapaests, paeons, and dactyls.
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In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
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Preserving the iambic senarii proved too restrictive, so I switched to a vaguely anapaestic waltz rhythm and made up a tune that allowed our singer to put a comic pause, if she wished, before the final syllables at the end of each line.
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In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
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The singers have been induced to make their own selections, and put forward, as Mr. Browning says, their best foot, anapaest or trochee, or whatever it may be.
Letters on Literature
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Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
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In the latter form it was also the chief dance of the Locrians, the step being called anapaest.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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He points out that bacchiacs, common in other plays, are rare here, and so are anapaests, and considers this to be because they are by nature slow, compared with the faster cretics and trochees, and it is true that this play (for whatever reason) does move at a great pace.
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[14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety.
Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets