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An anapestic is a verse which contains anapestic feet - a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry, most common in limericks.

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What is anapestic-tetrameter?

Anapestic-tetrameter is a poetic meter that contains four anapestic feet per line. An anapest is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.


Is the poem Azure and Gold by Amy Lowell trochee or iambic or anapestic?

it is mostly amphibrachic, with some anapestic lines.


What is the opposite of trochaic meter?

anapestic


Does Anapestic feet have three feet?

Not necessarily.


An example of an anapestic poem?

All limericks are anapestic. Additionally, most of Suess's work is specfically anapestic tetrameter, like "The Zax" and "Yertle the Turtle," as is Charles Clement Moore's "The Night Before Christmas." Interestingly enough, "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin also seems to be almost entirely anapestic tetrameter as well.


What is anapestic of the arts?

adriel atea blossm white


Which is the opposite of dactylic meter?

the opposite is the anapaest


How many syllables are in an anapestic tetrameter?

Anapestic tetrameter consists of four metrical feet, each containing two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. Therefore, each foot has three syllables, resulting in a total of twelve syllables in anapestic tetrameter. This rhythmic pattern creates a flowing and upbeat quality in poetry.


How many syllables per line are in something written in anapestic hexameter?

Eighteen


What is the metrical device for the line they also serve who only stand and wait?

anapestic


What is an anapestic pentameter?

Anapestic - is a "foot" (beat) comprising three syllables - dit dit DAH"First two UNstressed, the LAST one is STRESSED".That's anapestic trimeter right there.But, Pentameter defines that there will be 5(penta) feet (meters) in the line.dit dit DAH dit dit DAH dit dit DAH dit dit DAH dit dit DAH


Are the triple meters anapestic and iambic?

Anapestic meter consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (ex: "in the GARden"). Iambic meter consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (ex: "to BE or NOT to BE"). Triple meters are typically dactylic (three-syllable feet with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) rather than anapestic or iambic.