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Definition of Anapestics
1. anapestic [n] - See also: anapestic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anapestics
Literary usage of Anapestics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synopsis of the Greek Drama Including Biographical Notices ...: With a by John William Donaldson (1838)
"50,) that in dimeter anapestics a dactyl is very seldom, rarissime, ... 55) there
is no genuine instance of this license in tetrameter anapestics. ..."
2. The Theatre of the Greeks: Or the History, Literature, and Criticism of the (1830)
"The eleven comedies of Aristophanes contain more than twelve hundred tetrameter
anapestics, in which number we have remarked only the nineteen following ..."
3. The Classical Journal (1825)
"The laws respecting dimeter anapestics are in general accurately observed by
comic writers. Aristophanes in two or three instances has neglected the rule of ..."
4. The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and edited by John William Donaldson (1849)
"In the 1200 (or more) Tetrameter anapestics of Aristophanes only nineteen ...
The last quoted verse exhibits the transition (in long anapestics) from ..."
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