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anapestic
adjective as in poetic
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Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.
In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.
Anapestic verse consists of a regular recurrence of two unstressed syllables preceding a stressed syllable, — — /.
There is evident a tendency toward the rising verse and the anapestic foot.
Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms.
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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anapestic, such as: dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, and epodic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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