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anapæst Pros.|ˈænəpɛst, -piːst|
[ad. L. anapæstus, a. Gr. ἀνάπαιστος ‘struck back, reversed,’ f. ἀνά back + παί-ειν to strike.]
1. A reversed dactyl, a metrical foot, consisting of two short syllables followed by a long one.
[1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 133 For your anapestus of two short and a long ye haue these words but not many moe, as mănĭfōld, mŏnĭlēsse, rĕmănēnt, hŏlĭnēsse.] 1678Phillips, Anapæst. 1789Belsham Ess. I. xii. 222 French heroic verse, which consists of four regular anapests. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. II. 116 [The L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, etc.] owe their delightful variety to the judicious intermixture of trochees, spondees, and even anapæsts.
2. A verse composed of, or containing, such feet.
1846Grote Greece II. ii. vii. 572 The scanty fragments remaining to us of his elegies and anapæsts. 1861Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxliv. 129 What did the poet laureate know about it? He should have kept to his anapæsts. |