anapest

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Noun anapest has 1 sense

anapest, anapaest - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
--₁ is a kind of metrical foot, foot, metrical unit

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Anapest

A noun used to describe a metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by a long syllable, typically occurring in poetic verse.

Examples

The word "understand" contains an anapest at the beginning, with the syllables "un-der-stand".
In the line "And the sound of a voice that is still", the word "of a" is an anapest.

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