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Here is an example from Cowper , a line with three anapaestic Feet : I am out of hu Because of its length and the fact that it ends with a stressed syllable and so allows for strong rhymes, anapaest can produce a very rolling, galloping feeling verse, and allows for long lines with a great deal of internal complexity. The following is from Byron 's The Destruction Of Sennacherib : The Assyrian came And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. An even more complex example comes from Yeats (''The Wanderings of Oisin''). He intersperses anapests and Iamb s, using six-foot lines (rather than four feet as above). Since the anapaest is already a long foot, this makes for very long lines. Fled foam underneath us and 'round us, a wandering and milky smoke As high as the saddle-girth, covering away from our glances the tide And those that fled and that followed from the foam-pale distance broke. The immortal de The mixture of anapaests and iambs in this manner is most characteristic of late 19th century verse, particularly that of , of Lewis Carroll 's poem '' The Hunting Of The Snark '', Edward Lear 's nonsense poems, T. S. Eliot 's ''Book of Practical Cats'', and innumerable other examples. Apart from their independent role, anapaests are sometimes used as substitutions in iambic verse. In strict Iambic Pentameter , anapaests are rare, but they are found with some frequency in freer versions of the iambic line, such as the verse of Shakespeare's last plays, or the lyric poetry of the 19th century. |
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