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n. A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen.

n. A line of verse using this meter; for example, "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house” ( Clement Clarke Moore).

n. A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g the word "velveteen").

n. A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter; e.g. “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did NOT!” (Dr Seuss aka Theodor Geisel).

n. A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (˘ ˘ -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin dĕ-ĭ-tās, and in English in-ter-vene", are examples of anapests.

n. A verse composed of such feet.

n. In prosody, a foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short or unaccented, the last long or accented: the reverse of the dactyl.

n. a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables

"That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable."

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