anapaest
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- anapaestic adjective
Etymology
Origin of anapaest
C17: via Latin from Greek anapaistos reversed (that is, a dactyl reversed), from anapaiein, from ana- back + paiein to strike
Example Sentences
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He tends to favor the anapaest and the iambic tetrameter.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
"Gest that swim" would be rather a knotty anapaest, an insupportable foot indeed!
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
And in this way he made that sort of anapaest which is called the Aristophanic anapaest.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
"Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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