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Like some poetic feet
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anapestic
Word definitions for anapestic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Latin anapaesticus , from Greek anapaistikos , from anapaistos (see anapest ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anapestic \An`a*pes"tic\, a. [L. anapaesticus, Gr. ?.] Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n. Anapestic measure or verse.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one [syn: anapaestic ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest. 2 of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern. 3 of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick). 4 of, or relating ...
Usage examples of anapestic.
Consequently, the classification of verse as iambic, anapestic, trochaic, etc.
And Furvain, glancing for just a moment into his wine-bowl as though some poem might be lurking there, would draw a deep breath and instantaneously begin to recite a mock epic, in neatly balanced hexameter and the most elaborate of anapestic rhythms, about the desperate craving of a Pontifex for sausage made of steetmoy meat, and the sending of the laziest and most cowardly of the royal courtiers on a hunting expedition to the snowbound lair of that ferocious white-furred creature of northern Zimroel.
We are naturally shocked at the clothing of a grave subject in anapestic metre, or the treatment of a long and lofty theme in short, choppy lines.
It was like a line of verse anapestic tetrameter, or four metric feet, each foot consisting of three syllables, accented on the third.
His viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.
I twisted in my pneumatic womb symbol, trying to think of something I could do, but all I could think of was a foolish phrase that kept running through my mind on anapestic feet:In the country of the normal the neurotic man is king .