
1) 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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1) Anapaest
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two short metrical syllables followed by one long one
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a 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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• (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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metrical 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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A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable. S
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A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one. Examples include
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An'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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A 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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[
n] - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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a metrical foot or unit formed of three syllables, two unstressed beats followed by a stressed beat (-- ').
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anapaest noun a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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a 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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a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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