Crossword clues for anapest
anapest
- Foot for Swinburne
- Three-syllable foot
- Three-syllable poetic foot
- Two short syllables followed by a long one, poetically
- Three-syllable limerick foot
- Three-syllable foot, in poetry
- Three-syllable foot, as in "bada-bing"
- Three-syllable foot whose last syllable is stressed
- Three-part foot
- Reverse of a dactyl
- Poetic pattern found four times in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
- Meter of "I am monarch of all I survey."
- Foot of poetic meter
- "In the Mood," e.g
- Pattern in prosody
- Bit of a limerick
- "In the Mood," e.g.
- "Au revoir," for example
- One of four in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
- Standard part of a limerick
- A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
- Metrical foot
- Poet's three-syllable foot
- Poetic foot
- Short, short, long
- Type of verse
- Dactyl's relative
- Limerick foot
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 ([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English in-ter-vene", are examples of anapests.
A verse composed of such feet.
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- "to cut, strike, stamp" (see pave). So called because it reverses the dactyl.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context prosody English) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g the word "velveteen"). 2 (context prosody English) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter; e.g. “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did NOT!” ((w: Dr. Seuss), ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''.).
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.