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单词 anapaest
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  • "Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.

    Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922|Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  • Again, I should say, anapaestic—but this anapaest and amphibrach quarrel is ἄσπονδος.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

anapaest

anapest

/ (ˈænəpɛst, -piːst) /

noun

prosody a metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long (◡ ◡ –)

Derived forms of anapaest

anapaestic or anapestic, adjective

Word Origin for anapaest

C17: via Latin from Greek anapaistos reversed (that is, a dactyl reversed), from anapaiein, from ana- back + paiein to strike

Words nearby anapaest

anangioplasia, Ananias, anankastic personality, Ananke, ananthous, anapaest, anapest, anaphase, anaphia, anaphora, anaphoresis
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