Entertainment / Literature / Anapest: A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable. Some words and phrases in English that constitute anapests include the following examples: understand, interrupt, comprehend, anapest, New Rochelle, contradict, 'get a life,' condescend, Coeur d'Alene, 'in the blink of an eye,' and so on. Anapestic meter consists of lines of poetry that follow this pattern of 'light stress, light stress, heavy stress' pattern. For example: The Assyrian came d????wn like a w????lf on the f????ld. (Lord Byron, 'The Destruction of Sennacherib.') or 'Oh he flies through the air with the greatest of ease.' See extended discussion under meter.
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