An anapaest (/ˈænəpiːst, -pɛst/; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative...

almost every line, in different positions, an iamb is replaced with an anapest. "The Road Not Taken" reads conversationally, beginning as a kind of photographic...

using terms borrowed from the metrical feet of poetry: iamb (weak–strong), anapest (weak–weak–strong), trochee (strong–weak), dactyl (strong–weak–weak), and...

stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, the opposite of an anapest, sometimes called antidactylus to reflect this fact. A dactylic foot is...

irregularly and can be better described based on patterns of iambs and anapests, feet which he considers natural to the language. Actual rhythm is significantly...

song without anapaests or trochaics". This comment about the absence of anapest and trochee has been interpreted to mean that the music was not based on...

found in the plays. Tetrameter catalectic verses: These are long lines of anapests, trochees or iambs (where each line is ideally measured in four dipodes...

pattern name ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ tribrach – ᴗ ᴗ dactyl ᴗ – ᴗ amphibrach ᴗ ᴗ – anapaest (anapest) ᴗ – – bacchius – ᴗ – cretic – – ᴗ antibacchius – – – molossus...

In the Berlin version Bely changed the foot of his rhythmic prose from anapest to amphibrach, and removed ironical passages related to the revolutionary...

structured symmetrically in two sections, each half comprising long verses of anapests that are introduced by a choral song and that end in a pnigos. In the first...