anapaestic

The hymn's meter is essentially anapaestic, though there are some irregularities.

The individual amphibrachic foot often appears as a variant within, for instance, anapaestic meter.

And why is anapaestic tetrameter so slow?

The metre also lacks uniformity, veering from iambic to anapaestic form.

The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza.

The poem is in rhyming hexameter couplets, often with anapaestic movement and a feminine caesura.

Some anapaestic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in Gellius.

In a far departure from the Augustan manner common until then, the style is colloquial and written in loose anapaestic tetrameters.

The second sequel is entirely in anapaestic tetrameter like the original: Rudolph Shines Again (1954).

We have now gone so far as to suppose men constructing indefinite sequences of spondaic, iambic, trochaic, dactylic, or anapaestic words.

The swinging dactylic rhythm is well managed except where the words "descending" and "ascending" occur, and where, in line 24, the metre becomes momentarily anapaestic.

The names of the metrical families come from the names of the cola or "feet" in use, such as iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapaestic meters.

Anapaestic lines were normally chanted during the first entry of the chorus, as a marching rhythm, and were also used at moments of high tension between episodes.

Mother o' Mine," by Miss von der Heide, is a beautiful piece of anapaestic verse whose metre and sentiment alike attract the reader. "

Conventional English verse is usually (and confusedly) described in a terminology deriving from classical prosody - i.e. as iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapaestic.

"The Wanderer's Return," by Andrew Francis Lockhart, is a beautiful piece of anapaestic verse whose flow is as pleasing as its sentiment.

Tetrameter An example of anapaestic tetrameter is the A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (1823)

The nicety of Byron's ear has led him into a succession of feet which, with two trivial exceptions as regards melody, are absolutely accurate, a very rare occurrence this in dactylic or anapaestic rhythms.

The metre is largely one of anapaestic trimeter with an admix of initial iambs and trochees to break up the rather monotonous rhythm that the anapaestic line confers.

The success of the experiment with the trochees or iambuses (the one would have suggested the other) must have led to a trial of dactyls or anapaests- natural dactyls or anapaests- dactylic or anapaestic words.

Following their declared wish to awaken boys' metrical sense, the editors grouped their selections into seven sections, the heroic couplet, the octosyllabic couplet, the sonnet, the trochaic metre, the dactylic or anapaestic metre, classical metres, and miscellaneous.

First, it would be used only in the iambic, anapaestic, and spondaic rhythms (granting that the latter had not been thrown aside long since, on account of its tameness), because in these rhythms the concluding syllable being long, could best sustain the necessary protraction of the voice.

The best example of purely technical skill in his works is perhaps his success in the management of the anapaestic trimeter in his Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts (written in 1743), but first printed in Dodsley's Collection of Poems (vol.