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Anapest

Anapest Meaning & Definition
Anapest Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Anapest?

[n] a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables

Synonyms | Synonyms for Anapest: anapaest

Related Terms | Find terms related to Anapest: accent | accentuation | Alexandrine | amphibrach | amphimacer | anacrusis | antispast | arsis | bacchius | beat | cadence | caesura | catalexis | chloriamb | chloriambus | colon | counterpoint | cretic | dactyl | dactylic hexameter | diaeresis | dimeter | dipody | dochmiac | elegiac | elegiac couplet | elegiac pentameter | emphasis | epitrite | feminine caesura | foot | heptameter | heptapody | heroic couplet | hexameter | hexapody | iamb | iambic | iambic pentameter | ictus | ionic | jingle | lilt | masculine caesura | measure | meter | metrical accent | metrical foot | metrical group | metrical unit | metron | molossus | mora | movement | numbers | paeon | pentameter | pentapody | period | proceleusmatic | pyrrhic | quantity | rhythm | spondee | sprung rhythm | stress | swing | syzygy | tetrameter | tetrapody | tetraseme | thesis | tribrach | trimeter | tripody | triseme | trochee

See Also | foot | metrical foot | metrical unit

Anapest In Webster's Dictionary

\An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; ? back + ? to strike.] 1. (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. 2. A verse composed of such feet.

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