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Two short syllables followed by a long one, poetically
Answer for the clue "Two short syllables followed by a long one, poetically ", 7 letters:
anapest
Alternative clues for the word anapest
- Three-syllable foot
- Pattern in prosody
- Three-syllable foot, as in "bada-bing"
- Poetic pattern found four times in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
- Dactyl's relative
- Three-syllable foot whose last syllable is stressed
- One of four in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
- Bit of a limerick
Word definitions for anapest in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anapest \An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; ? back + ? to strike.] (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: anapaest ]
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.