anapestic
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- (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one
- An anapaest (also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ...
- of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest; of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human? ...
- a metrical foot containing three syllables--the first two are unstressed, while the last is stressed
- (the noun is "anapest") two light syllables followed by a stressed syllable: "The Assyrian came dówn like a wólf on the fóld." (Lord Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib.")
- (anapest) See Meter.