In a manner characterized by anacrusis; with unstressed opening syllables that precede the main metrical beat.
From anacrustic + -ally. This adverb allows precise description of how verse or music is structured at the beginning of lines or phrases.
When poets or composers describe their work as 'starting anacrustically,' they're explaining why a line feels like it has momentum before the real beat hits—it's technical but explains something listeners intuitively feel!
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