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Anapest logo #10101) Anapaest 2) Au revoir 3) Bit of a limerick 4) Foot 5) Foot for swinburne 6) In the Mood 7) Limerick foot 8) Metric foot 9) Metrical foot 10) Metrical unit 11) Pattern in prosody 12) Poetic foot 13) Short, short, long 14) Standard part of a limerick 15) Three-part foot 16) Three-syllable foot 17) Three-syllable poetic foot
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Anapest

Anapest logo #10101) Anapaest
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anapest

anapest logo #22641two short metrical syllables followed by one long one
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anapest

anapest logo #21032a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one. Examples include the words 'undermine' and 'overcome.' See Byron's 'The Destruction of Sennacherib.'
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Anapest

Anapest logo #21002• (n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests. • (n.) A verse composed of such feet.
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anapest

anapest logo #21003metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. First found in early Spartan marching ... [2 related articles]
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Anapest

Anapest logo #22385A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable. S
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Anapest

Anapest logo #22429A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one. Examples include
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Anapest

Anapest logo #20972An'a·pest noun [ Latin anapaestus , Greek ... an anapest, i.e. , a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back ; from ...; ... back + ... to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or acce...
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Anapest

Anapest logo #20166A foot consisting of three syllables where the first two are short or unstressed and the final one is long or stressed e.g. 'in the WOODS'.
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anapest

anapest logo #20400[n] - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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anapest

anapest logo #23421 a metrical foot or unit formed of three syllables, two unstressed beats followed by a stressed beat (-- ').
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anapest

anapest logo #20974anapaest noun a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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anapest

anapest logo #21199a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
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anapest

anapest logo #23665 a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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