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anapaests's Usage Examples:

[citation needed] The rhythmic pattern—three anapaests, one iamb—has since then been popularised by numerous parody versions.

their independent role, anapaests are sometimes used as substitutions in iambic verse.

In strict iambic pentameter, anapaests are rare, but they are found.

common metres are the bacchius (x – – ) and cretic (– x –), together with anapaests (u u –), but sometimes with other metres mixed in.

" The Highwayman uses hexameter that mixes iambs and anapaests.

the different kinds of feet differ in different authors; for example, anapaests make up 26% of the feet of anapaestic verse in Sophocles, but 39% in Aristophanes;.

It is often more convenient to consider iambics, trochaics and anapaests in terms of metra rather than feet; for each of these families, a metron.

As numerous commentators have pointed out, with its affecting anapaests, the compositional style and impassioned tone resemble those of the obbligato.

He defines the latter as "a choral song without anapaests or trochaics".

anapaests make up 26% of the feet of anapaestic verse in Sophocles, but 39% in Aristophanes; dactyls make up 20% of anapaestic verse in Sophocles but only 6%.

The first two lines actually contain anapaests in place of iambs.

The alto part is characterised by falling anapaests; while the tenor line is made up of two parts, the first a rising semiquaver.

Synonyms:

anapest, foot, metrical unit, metrical foot,

Antonyms:

ride, subtract, head,