This is in Hunt's reformed heroic couplet: the rest are in a chirruping and gossiping anapaestic sing-song which is perhaps the writer's most congenial vein.
Mother o' Mine," by Miss von der Heide, is a beautiful piece of anapaestic verse whose metre and sentiment alike attract the reader.
The metre also lacks uniformity, veering from iambic to anapaestic form.
The Wanderer's Return," by Andrew Francis Lockhart, is a beautiful piece of anapaestic verse whose flow is as pleasing as its sentiment.
The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza.
My Native Land", a poem by Adam Dickson, describes the Scottish Border with pleasing imagery and bounding anapaestic metre.
The anapaestic metre was less suited to Latin, and is rarely met with either in the comic poets, or in the fragments of the tragedians.
The =iambic-anapaestic rhythm= has been touched on before in connexion with the four-stressed verse (cf.
Only in the last stanza and in the usual form a b a b c d c d we find trochaic and iambic-anapaestic verses.
As a rule it rhymes here in couplets, and under the influence of the even-beat measures used in the same dramatic pieces it gradually assumes a pretty regular iambic-anapaestic or trochaic-dactylic rhythm.
Stanzas of this structure, composed of trochaic verses or of trochaic mixed with iambic or of dactylic mixed with iambic-anapaestic verses, are not frequent.
Iambic-anapaestic verses of two stresses and feminine ending are found in Longfellow's poem The Men of Nidaros (p.
These are much rarer than the iambic-anapaestic metres.
We quote the following verses from Tennyson's Maud to illustrate this metre, which, however, in consequence of the fluctuating proportion of iambic and anapaestic measures occurring in it is handled very differently by different poets (cf.
An anapaestic verse is one which only contains, or is mostly made up of, anapaestic feet.
In Piers the Plowman there is a prevailing tendency to ananapaestic cadence.
Percy made a serious mistake when he gave the name of Alexandrine to anapaestic verse; but he is quite right in his general statement that alliterative verse became lost in a measure the movement of which had the final beat.
In this doggerel made up of tags of anapaestic verse, Julian reproduces in the first five and last two verses the proclamation made at the Olympic games.
In the matter of anapaestic substitutions, and of stress-syllable openings for the verse-section after the caesura, Beaumont is similarly inelastic; while the Fletcher of the Shepheardesse displays a marvellous freedom.
The reference is to the anapaestictetrameter called ‘Aristophanic.
If this line had an additional foot either at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end, it would be a perfect anapaestic tetrameter, to which some give the name “Aristophanic.
Moore had abandoned the heroic couplet, and also the anapaestic measure, in favour of the eight-syllabled iambic, used with skilful variations of rhyme.
He occasionally suppressed a short syllable at the close of the line, and more rarely in the early part, with the result that ananapaestic lilt of some effectiveness makes its appearance.
The shortest anapaestic verse is a single anapaest: "In the glass There's an ass.
That of the poems of Tyrtaeus the anapaestic verses only were sung as marches, and that they were embateria, is now generally admitted.
Line: 18 This is a signal instance of the way in which these early anapaestic lines break down into heroics.
In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.
This verse consists of twoanapaestic dipodies, or four complete anapaestic feet.
The Latin language has so few anapaestic words that it does not lend itself readily to this rhythm.
By this theory an iambic verse becomes trochaic with anacrusis, an anapaestic verse dactylic with anacrusis, &c.
Particular kinds of movement are often called rhythms, as anapaestic rhythms, dactylic rhythms, &c.
Fourth Paeon (2521), or by an anapaestic word which is itself preceded by a final short syllable; (d.
Some editors divide the anapaestic octonarii into dimeters (or quaternarii) and write them as such.
This verse consists of two anapaestic dipodies or four anapaestic feet, the last foot being incomplete.
Other anapaestic verses sometimes occur, especially in the early comedy, but they are rare.
This consists of four anapaestic dipodies or eight complete anapaestic feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anapaestic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
