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单词 anapaest
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anapaest

/ˈanəpiːst / /ˈanəpɛst/
(US anapest)
noun Prosody
A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear....
  • They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
  • He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.

Derivatives

anapaestic

/anəˈpiːstɪk / /anəˈpɛstɪk / adjective ...
  • But the repetition of ‘call to me’ in its dactylic form makes a continuous anapaestic reading impossible, and the stress dactyls in the following lines makes it clearly inappropriate.
  • ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
  • That poem, ‘The Pig and the Rooster,’ was in anapestic tetrameter, the poetic meter of ‘The Night before Christmas.’

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek anapaistos 'reversed', from ana- 'back' + paiein 'strike' (because it is the reverse of a dactyl).

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