Definitions from Wiktionary (anapest)
▸ noun: (prosody) In qualitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two unstressed and the last one stressed.
▸ noun: (prosody) In quantitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short, then one long.
▸ noun: (prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter.
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▸ noun: (prosody) In qualitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two unstressed and the last one stressed.
▸ noun: (prosody) In quantitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short, then one long.
▸ noun: (prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter.
Similar:
anapaest,
amphibrach,
tetrameter,
trimeter,
elegiac pentameter,
epitrite,
heptameter,
half foot,
iambic tetrameter,
octapody,
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