anapest

7 letters in word "anapest": A A E N P S T.

Anagrams of anapest:

• peasant

Words found within anapest:

aa aas ae an ana anas ane anes ansa ansae ansate ant anta antae antas ante antes ants ape apes apnea apneas apse apt apts as asea asp aspen at atap ataps ate ates ea ean eans eas east eat eats en ens es est et eta etas etna etnas na nae nap napa napas nape napes naps nas nat nates nats ne neap neaps neat neats nep neps nest net nets pa paean paeans paesan pan pane panes pans pant pants pas pase past pasta paste pat patas pate paten patens pates pats pe pea pean peans peas peat peats pen pens pent pents pes pesant pest pet pets pst sae san sane sant sap sapan sat sate sea sean seat sen sena sent sept septa set seta snap sneap spa spae span spane spat spate spean speat spent spet st stane stap stean sten step ta tae taes tan tana tanas tane tans tap tapa tapas tape tapen tapes taps tas te tea teas ten tens tepa tepas tes

• Definitions:
• A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in seventeen and to the moon. ...
• a three-syllable poetic measure comprising two short or unaccented syllables followed by a longer accented one (--/).
• A foot consisting of three syllables where the first two are short or unstressed and the final one is long or stressed eg 'in the WOODS'.
• In a line of poetry, two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable forming the pattern for the line or perhaps for the entire poem
• A three syllable foot made of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. The word "comprehend," pronounced "com - pre - HEND," is a good example. This is the opposite of the spondaic foot.
• Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in com-pre-HEND or in-ter-VENE. An anapestic meter rises to the accented beat as in Byron's lines from "The Destruction of Sennacherib": "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, / When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep ...
• a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
• An anapaest or anapest, also called antidactylus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one (as in a-na-paest); in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed ...

• anapaests ←
• anapaestical ←
• anapaestic ←
• anapest
• → anapestic
• → anapestics
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