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Definition of Anapests
1. anapest [n] - See also: anapest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anapests
Literary usage of Anapests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of English Versification: Containing Rules for the Structure of the by Erastus Everett (1848)
"The line of four anapests followed by a short syllable. The eighth and longest
species of Anapestic line is made up of four anapests and one short syllable. ..."
2. The Classical Journal (1825)
"The Edinburgh Reviewer is of opinion that in this kind of verse the comic poets
admit anapests more willingly and frequently into the first, third, ..."
3. Sheldon's Advanced Language Lessons: Grammar and Composition by Sheldon and Company (1895)
"Two anapests with added syllable : — He is gone | on the moun I tain, ...
Three anapests, anapestic trimeter : — Not a pine | in my grove | is there seen. ..."
4. Athenian Tragedy: A Study in Popular Art by Thomas Dwight Goodell (1920)
"They are certainly more fitting than our modern terms. The entering song of the
chorus, with any recited march-anapests that went with it, was known as the ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"They would, indeed, upon any system of scanning, be queer anapests. As Mr. C.
has noted them, they would, upon his system (if such a system were capable of ..."
6. A Text-book for the Study of Poetry by Francis M. Connell (1913)
"So, too, the dactyls and anapests. in the following add by their easy flow a
softness to the pathos: Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashioned so ..."
7. Synopsis of the Greek Drama Including Biographical Notices ...: With a by John William Donaldson (1838)
"Of the seventy anapests which we have observed in the eleven Plays of Aristophanes,
twenty- two, or nearly one-third, occur in the first place. ..."
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