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Poet's three-syllable foot
Answer for the clue "Poet's three-syllable foot ", 7 letters:
anapest
Alternative clues for the word anapest
- One of four in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
- Dactyl's relative
- Limerick foot
- Short, short, long
- Three-syllable poetic foot
- Two short syllables followed by a long one, poetically
- Three-syllable foot, as in "bada-bing"
- Bit of a limerick
- Meter of "I am monarch of all I survey."
Word definitions for anapest in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also anapaest , "two short syllables followed by a long one," 1670s, from Latin anapestus , from Greek anapaistos "struck back, rebounding," verbal adjective from anapaiein "to strike back," from ana- "back" (see ana- ) + paiein "to strike," from PIE *pau- ...
Usage examples of anapest.
It made no use of the traditional stress-patterned metrics he knew so well, the iambs and trochees and dactyls, the spondees and anapests, out of which Furvain had always built his poems with such swiftness and ease.
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.
Pope, the majestic blank verse of Thomson, the terse octosyllabics of Swift, the sonorous quatrains of Gray, and the lively anapests of Sheridan and Moore.