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anapestic

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1. anapestic - Noun

2. anapestic - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.

Anapestic measure or verse.

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It is declaimed in long lines of 'anapestic tetrameters'. Source: Internet

In an anapestic passage in The Frogs, for instance, the character Aeschylus presents a view of poetry that is supposed to be serious but which leads to a comic interruption by the god, Dionysus: ::AES. Source: Internet

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