How To Use anapestic In A Sentence
- You may, of course, disregard the whole thing without fear of violent reprisals: anapestic little bouffe Toast:
- Nor does he discuss another dialectic, between the Scherzo's anapestic and amphibrach crotchet groups, sublated after the Trio in that startling alla breve succession of equal minims; nor the hunting topos of the Trio.
- 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. The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing
- Each line of ‘I mari del Sud’ begins with a decasyllable composed of three anapestic feet.
- But Seely has to work with the less subtle meters of the nursery rhymes and other poems he parodies, such as dactylic and anapestic. 2007 June 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews
- He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter. APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
- That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable. Miscellany
- I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league. Cake
- Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue! Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
- He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.” Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
