Thesaurus / anapestic
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synonyms for anapestic
- dramatic
- elegiac
- epic
- idyllic
- imaginative
- lyric
- lyrical
- melodious
- metrical
- rhythmical
- romantic
- tuneful
- dactylic
- epical
- epodic
- iambic
- odic
- songlike
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Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.
THE GREEN BOOKMR JKAIIn like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERAnapestic verse consists of a regular recurrence of two unstressed syllables preceding a stressed syllable, — — /.
LEGENDS, TALES AND POEMSGUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUERThere is evident a tendency toward the rising verse and the anapestic foot.
THE TRANSLATIONS OF BEOWULFCHAUNCEY BREWSTER TINKERHere we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms.
ENGLISH VERSERAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN, PH.D.Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter.
ENGLISH VERSERAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN, PH.D.A poetic foot of three syllables which bears the accent on the third syllable is called an anapestic foot.
JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND, VOL. 7CHARLES H. SYLVESTERHis viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.
ESSAYS ON SCANDINAVIAN LITERATUREHJALMAR HJORTH BOYESENAgain we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement.
RHYMES AND METERSHORATIO WINSLOWTechnically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet.
JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND, VOL. 10CHARLES HERBERT SYLVESTERWORDS RELATED TO ANAPESTIC
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