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Definition of Anapaest
1. Noun. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
Definition of Anapaest
1. anapest [n -S] - See also: anapest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anapaest
Literary usage of Anapaest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"These are the iambic octosyllabic couplet, and the various combinations of the
anapaest. By one of those coincidences which it is not unreasonable to regard ..."
2. A System of Greek Prosody and Metre: For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1839)
"The anapaest and spondee are combined without any restriction, as will appear
from the following ... Very rarely does an anapaest or a spondee precede ..."
3. The Grecian Drama: A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of the Greeks by John Richard Darley (1840)
"If a spondee or anapaest occur in the sixth place, it should not be followed by
a tribrach in the seventh ; for if this were allowed, then a dactyl should ..."
4. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner (1872)
"The Caesura is usually at the end of the fourth foot, but is sometimes omitted.
The scheme is nearly the same as the trimeter iambic. The anapaest occurs in ..."
5. A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek: Regarded as a Sure Basis by Georg Benedikt Winer, ( (1882)
"Here there is an anapaest in the first place (Herrn. Doctr. Metr. p. 119 sq., Don.
p. ... anapaest ..."
6. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"Examples of the doubly overlapping anapaest ( + ~— + ) are found in Menander in II.
... The parts of the divided anapaest may be connected with one another ..."
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