anapaestic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Its slow movement is a full-blown melody, its scherzo trips along in anapaestic rhythm, its finale builds a sonorous castle of tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anapaestic metre was less suited to Latin, and is rarely met with either in the comic poets, or in the fragments of the tragedians.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
The metre also lacks uniformity, veering from iambic to anapaestic form.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
"The Wanderer's Return," by Andrew Francis Lockhart, is a beautiful piece of anapaestic verse whose flow is as pleasing as its sentiment.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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