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How To Use Anapaestic In A Sentence

  • Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
  • 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’.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
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  • Significantly both these phrases stand out as exceptions to the anapaestic metre.
  • 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
  • The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
  • 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.
  • This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.

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