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Example sentences for "anapest"

Lexicographically close words:
analyzes; analyzing; anam; anapaest; anapaestic; anapestic; anapests; anaphylactic; anaphylaxis; anarch
  1. The stated or uniform adoption of the iambus for a part of each line, and of the anapest for the residue of it, produces verse of the Composite Order.

  2. But what countenance has Johnson lent to the gross error of reckoning such a foot an anapest still?

  3. The anapest divides two of them in the middle; the amphibrach will so divide eight.

  4. The Line of a single Anapest preceded by an Iambus," or what he improperly calls "The first and shortest species of Anapestic lines.

  5. Everett, speaking of anapestic lines, says, "The first and shortest of these is composed of a single Anapest following an Iambus.

  6. By a synæresis of the two short syllables, an anapest may sometimes be employed for an iambus; or a dactyl, for a trochee.

  7. The trochee and the dactyl are interchangeable; and the iambus and the anapest are interchangeable.

  8. An Anapest is a three-syllable foot accented on the last syllable.

  9. It is hovering between the form of the first two feet and the anapest of the last foot.

  10. Since both the iambus and the anapest are accented on the last syllable, they may be interchanged.


    11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anapest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; anapest; beat; cadence; caesura; counterpoint; dactyl; emphasis; foot; iambic; ictus; jingle; lilt; measure; meter; movement; numbers; period; quantity; rhythm; stress; swing; thesis; trochee