Anapaest

Anapest ( Greek. Ἀνάπαιστος "reflected back; reverse < dactyl >"); less common stress anapest (corresponding to it. Anapä́st ) - three-syllable verse size .

In the antique quantitative metric, there is a meter whose foot consists of two short syllables and one long syllable.

In the modern European syllabic-tonic metric, the anapest is a meter whose foot consists of two unstressed and one stressed syllable.

An example of a truncated anapest:

Oh, the weight is without end and without edge -
Without end, and without edge ta sword!
Learn yu you, life ! Take it!
And with your stars ta ta !

- Alexander Blok , “ Oh, spring without end and without a brink ... ”

Another example:

There is in the world of cutbacks
Roko Va I about gibli g.
There is a pledge for the wages of holy men ;
There is hope for happiness .

- Alexander Blok , “ To the Muse ”

The most common sizes of the Russian syllabic-tonic anapest are four- and three-stop (from the middle of the 19th century ).