क्या है anapest
An anapest is a metrical foot that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. Words such as “understand” and “contradict” are examples of anapest, because both of them have three syllables where the accent is on the final syllable.
Anapestic words are less common than other meters in English, such as words with three syllables where the stress is on the first syllable (dactyl), or words that have alternating stressed and unstressed syllables (trochee and iamb). Anapestic words are more commonly found in other languages, such as French (some words and phrases borrowed from French still contain the anapest in English, such as “engineer,” “haute couture,” and “art nouveau”).
Common Examples of Anapest
Some idioms in English are examples of anapestic meter, such as the following:
– Get a life
– In the blink of an eye
– By the skin of your teeth
– Get it out of your system
– Feeling under the weather
– Hit the nail on the head
– At the drop of a hat
– Costs an arm and a leg
– In the heat of the moment
Significance of Anapest in Literature
Due to the fact that it sounds song-like, anapest therefore is popular in rhymes for children and comic poetry, while not as popular in more formal poetry. Some looser iambic pentameter also contains some examples of anapest interspersed with the regular meter, such as later works by William Shakespeare and some nineteenth century formal poetry.
