How To Use Anapestic In A Sentence
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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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_̷ ◡ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ ◡ _̷ 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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(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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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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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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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 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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‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
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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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An anapestic or dactylic trimetrical line will have nine syllables, and a trisyllabic tetrametrical line will have twelve syllables.
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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.
Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time
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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
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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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You may, of course, disregard the whole thing without fear of violent reprisals: anapestic little bouffe
Toast:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter.
APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
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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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Each line of ‘I mari del Sud’ begins with a decasyllable composed of three anapestic feet.
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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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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.
