How To Use Anapest In A Sentence
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‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
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Actually a mixed meter with anapests and iambs and some nice catalexis thrown in.
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They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
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He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.
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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
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The only anapestic poems that everyone still knows are "The Night Before Christmas" and "Horton Hatches the Egg.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An anapestic or dactylic trimetrical line will have nine syllables, and a trisyllabic tetrametrical line will have twelve syllables.
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In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
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‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
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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.
Miscellany
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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.
Middlesex
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Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue!
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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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.
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
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Wordsworth experimented with an anapestic ballad stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter in the 1798
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.
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Each mixes iambs and anapests in a particular way, yet each blends seamlessly with the others and helps to create a perfectly natural cadence.
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Because the fact is, when we read "The Cat in the Hat," we are not thinking anapestic dimeter, we are not marveling at the ease with which Seuss manipulates this first-grade vocabulary list.
The Cat (And Hat) That Came To Stay
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(e) _The fifth measure_ -- called anapestic measure -- is made up of two short or unemphatic followed by a long or emphatic syllable. '' '
Writing for Vaudeville
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I watched, mesmerized, as she receded down the leaf-thick lane, clots of black earth being kicked up in the anapest meter of a gallop.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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If she was going to be honest, she had loved the way Seth knew what an anapest was, and a canzone.
The Tenth Circle
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_̷ ◡ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ that is, 5-stress trochaic, with dactylic substitution in the first foot and truncation or catalexis of the last foot in the second and fourth lines; or perhaps iambic, with anapestic substitution in the second foot and a feminine ending in the first and third lines.
The Principles of English Versification
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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).
God’s Grandeur « Unknowing
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Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue!
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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Nor does he discuss another dialectic, between the Scherzo's anapestic and amphibrach crotchet groups, sublated after the Trio in that startling alla breve succession of equal minims; nor the hunting topos of the Trio.
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He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.
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In the next pair of variations, we return to the major, with a lively anapest rhythm.
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Then there's the verse, the galumphing iambs and anapests that pull you forward with the force of the Cat in the Hat leading you off a cliff.
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And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot.
The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing
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Each line of ‘I mari del Sud’ begins with a decasyllable composed of three anapestic feet.
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But Seely has to work with the less subtle meters of the nursery rhymes and other poems he parodies, such as dactylic and anapestic.
2007 June 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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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.’
The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing
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Each mixes iambs and anapests in a particular way, yet each blends seamlessly with the others and helps to create a perfectly natural cadence.
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He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter.
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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.
Miscellany
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I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league.
Cake
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You may, of course, disregard the whole thing without fear of violent reprisals: anapestic little bouffe
Toast:
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He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
Cole Porter in the Summer, When It Sizzles — If They Say That These Lyrics Heinous, Kick Them Right in the Coriolanus « One-Minute Book Reviews
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A full anapestic metre with feminine ending gives somewhat the effect of anacrusis, since a third light syllable must be crowded in between the stresses.
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Then there's the verse, the galumphing iambs and anapests that pull you forward with the force of the Cat in the Hat leading you off a cliff.
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He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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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
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They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
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With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.
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And after holding a sonorous B-major chord, the orchestra sets off on the most famous use of galloping anapestic meter in classical music.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
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Only a short time ago, such a call would have been greeted with bewildered questions about what exactly anapests, sapphics, trochees, cretics, dactyls, amphibrachs (my favorite), and alcaics were.
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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.
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