Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of an anapest; consisting of anapests.
- noun The anapestic measure; an anapestic verse. The following is an example of anapestics:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to, or composed of an
anapest . - adjective of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?)
heartbeat pattern. - adjective of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of
poetry (see also limeric orlimerick ). - adjective of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "
surdo " drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in asamba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one
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Examples
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Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue!"
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(e) _The fifth measure_ -- called anapestic measure -- is made up of two short or unemphatic followed by a long or emphatic syllable. '' '
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot.
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Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
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And after holding a sonorous B-major chord, the orchestra sets off on the most famous use of galloping anapestic meter in classical music.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
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He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.”
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"Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed.
With Death on His Mind John J. Miller 2012
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The anapestic cadences of the limerick are the same ones children used to learn from reciting Browning, Scott and Tennyson: Oh well for the fisherman's boy/That he shouts with his sister at play.
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The only anapestic poems that everyone still knows are "The Night Before Christmas" and "Horton Hatches the Egg."
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