anapaestic in English
adjective
(Poetry) containing anapaests (foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long)
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1. See Anapaest ‘But the repetition of ‘call to me’ in its dactylic form makes a continuous Anapaestic reading impossible, and the stress dactyls in the following lines makes it clearly inappropriate.’
2. Anapaest , anapest n (Prosody) a metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long (<Anapaest>) (C17: via Latin from Greek anapaistos reversed (that is, a dactyl reversed), from anapaiein, from ana- back + paiein to strike) ♦ Anapaestic, anapestic adj