Anapests is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 270 anagrams from letters in anapests (aaenpsst).
1580-90; Latin anapaestus Greek anápaistos struck back, reversed (as compared with a dactyl), equivalent to ana- ana- + pais- (variant stem
But Voltaire now quit the anapest and dactyl and devoted his best hours to taking fencing lessons.
The trochee and the dactyl are interchangeable; and the iambus and the anapest are interchangeable.
It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.
This may occur when the accent is upon the last syllable of the foot; that is, when the foot is an iambus or an anapest.
It is hovering between the form of the first two feet and the anapest of the last foot.
An anapest is a three-syllable foot accented on the last syllable.
This foot, which is the opposite of the dactyl, is known as the anapest.
“anapest” comes from a Greek verb which means “strike back”; an anapest is a reversed dactyl.
Where arm in arm two dancers are entwined,And whirl themselves with strict embracements bound,their feet an anapest do sound.
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