The ear is satisfied by the spondaic first foot and the anapæstic third.
For a lacking thesis in the second foot, a similar rhetorical pause, sometimes also an anapæstic third foot, may compensate, as in i.
Such stress-syllable openings are frequently counterbalanced by an anapæstic second or third foot; occasionally by two anapæsts, as in vi.
In this and the next instance anapæstic compensation is prominent.
These alliterative and anapæstic lines are in the manner of Tusser, who has many such; for example, "At Christmas of Christ many carols we sing.
In both pieces the author fell back upon his earlier scheme of metre, the Christabel blend of iambic with anapæstic passages, instead of the nearly pure iambs of his middle poems.
And therefore the first and simplest form of our genuine Anapæstic verse, is made up of two anapæsts.
Many poems, and especially songs, are written in the dactyl or anapæstic measure, some consisting of eleven or twelve syllables, and some of less.
The Cross of Calvary was to the Gnôstic Teacher the outer and efficacious sign of this Mystery or Sacrament.
So Gnôstic documents were not merely intended to puzzle the outsider, but the insider as well.
Think of Philo and what he says of the teaching of his Gnôstic Therapeuts.
It contains several Gnôstic works translated into the Upper Egyptian dialect from the Greek, and probably is as old as the sixth century A.
See further the "Hymn of Jesus" and the "Gnôstic Crucifixion" texts and commentaries by G.
Anything that I have added to bring out the meaning of the Gnôstic author now and again, I have enclosed in brackets.
We have an old Gnôstic ritual preserved in the compilation generally known as the "Acts of John.
His swinging verses still have the older tendency to a trochaic rather than the later to an anapæstic rhythm; but they are, so to speak, on the move, and approaching the later form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
