Relating to or written in anapaests; describing verse that uses the anapaest metrical pattern.
From 'anapaest' + '-ic' (relating to). A direct adjectival form of the Greek-derived 'anapaest,' meaning 'of or pertaining to anapaests.'
Most of us have never heard the term, but we've all *felt* anapaestic rhythm—Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' is famous for its thundering anapaestic meter that makes you hear the horses galloping!
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