With its long note on the second sixteenth note, this is another musical anapest. |
It is hovering between the form of the first two feet and the anapest of the last foot. |
An anapest is a literary term indicating some imbalance, the end of a word or phrase being stronger that its beginning. |
They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem. |
In the next pair of variations, we return to the major, with a lively anapest rhythm. |
Where arm in arm two dancers are entwined,And whirl themselves with strict embracements bound,their feet an anapest do sound. |