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Anapestic
Anapestic meaning
Of, relating to, or composed of, anapests. | Of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human) heartbeat pattern. | Of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry; see also limeric or limerick.
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In an anapestic passage in The Frogs, for instance, the character Aeschylus presents a view of poetry that is supposed to be serious but which leads to a comic interruption by the god, Dionysus: ::AES.
It is declaimed in long lines of 'anapestic tetrameters'.