Word: anapestic
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...strict, traditional rules. Limericks must have five lines. The first, second and fifth lines must all rhyme, while the third and fourth follow another rhyme (a,a,b,b,a). There are 13 feet, or stressed syllables, to the limerick-no more, no less. The typical foot is an anapest, that is, two unstressed syllables preceding an accented one (da-da-DAH), or sometimes an iamb...
before deciding my lengthy battle with athlete's foot and root rot left my sole too scarred for a frisky chase through the thorny maze of iamb, anapest and trochee...
...famous one, when he addresses the Roman plebs at Caesar's funeral in the Forum. Here he lacks sincerity and sonority. The crowd, however, handles itself rather effectively in this scene, emitting a susurrus of suspense before Brutus' harangue, and erupting into noisy iterations of a metrically unison spondee-anapest pattern before Mark Antony...
Pathetic Fallacy. Modern education has deprived all but very senior readers of a schoolbook knowledge of rhetoric; few nowadays can tell the difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded...
...thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work, but at first Revere...
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