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A metrical unit having two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is an anapaest. The word 'cigarette' is an example of an anapaest.

The word 'anapaest', however, is not an anapaest. It is a dactyl. And the word 'dactyl' is a trochee (as is the word 'trochee').

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