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Foot of poetic meter
Answer for the clue "Foot of poetic meter ", 7 letters:
anapest
Alternative clues for the word anapest
- Pattern in prosody
- "Au revoir," for example
- Metrical foot
- Limerick foot
- Poetic pattern found four times in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
- Two short syllables followed by a long one, poetically
- Foot for Swinburne
- Poetic foot
- Three-syllable foot whose last syllable is stressed
Word definitions for anapest in dictionaries
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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.