How To Use anapest In A Sentence
- ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
- Actually a mixed meter with anapests and iambs and some nice catalexis thrown in.
- They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
- He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.
- Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed. With Death on His Mind
- The only anapestic poems that everyone still knows are "The Night Before Christmas" and "Horton Hatches the Egg. Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time
- It seemed the answer was not strict anapests or dactyls or even amphibrachs but a looser sense of the line altogether, with room to gallop and stop short at will.
- The anapestic cadences of the limerick are the same ones children used to learn from reciting Browning, Scott and Tennyson: Oh well for the fisherman's boy/That he shouts with his sister at play. Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time
- Isocrates about thirty verses, most of them senarian, and some of them anapest, which in prose have a more disagreeable effect than any others. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
- An anapestic or dactylic trimetrical line will have nine syllables, and a trisyllabic tetrametrical line will have twelve syllables.
