Talk:Anapaest

"There is an ancynt marinere and he stoppeth one of three"- anapestic?

...nope, loosely iambic. --Oolong 09:08, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

famous example
You ought to use more familiar examples (familiar to Americans, at least):

'Twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE...

Oh SAY can you SEE by the DAWN'S early LIGHT? CharlesTheBold (talk) 06:30, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Let's try Shelley; everybody knows his work--or ought to: Like a CHILD from the WOMB, like a GHOST from the TOMB, I aRISE and unBUILD it aGAIN. --Svenska, 18 Mar 09

Educated stupidity
Oh, A Visit from St. Nicholas is &ldquo;another example of trimeter&rdquo; is it? Or is it? Honestly, you boorish Wikipedians wouldn&rsquo;t know a trimeter from a millimeter! Though you may drown in the vast swamp of your ignorance, still you ought recognize that
 * Twas the night before Christ mas and all through the house 

has not three, but four strong beats! Truly, you are all educated stupid! MartianDisciple (talk) 10:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * There is a template which goes like:
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 * I'm not one for just using such things but this would work if I were. J IM ptalk·cont 02:12, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Sourcing
Some of this article's content (specifically, the characterization of the cadence of anapaests as "galloping," itself an allusion to an anapaestic Tennyson poem, as well as the illustrative examples from Byron and A Visit From St. Nicholas) seems manifestly to have been derived from a book called The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry. Unless the author of those sections of the article can provide some other source(s) for the material, I'll update the article with a citation to the aforementioned book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gestrin (talk • contribs) 22:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Autological word
The article makes a strange claim.
 * The English word anapaest (when pronounced ) is itself an anapaest (and hence autological). The Greek and Latin words ἀνάπαιστος and anapaestus only start as anapaests.

Even the pronunciation given clearly shows the stress on the first syllable, making it a dactyl, not an anapaest. And the comment about the Greek and Latin words are not really notable. I'm removing this paragraph. Feel free to restore it if there's another pronunciation I don't know about.


 * Sorry, I forgot to sign my previous comment. -WurdBendur (talk) 02:01, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * IPA transcriptions may provide a useful standard representation of the sounds of words, but stress patterns vary between dialects and regional variations of the same language. Ie. What sounds like a stressed syllable to many millions of English speakers may sound unstressed to many millions of others.  Also, anapest is primarily a prosodic term and given that the stressed/unstressed parts of words in poetry are often influenced by surrounding structure (anapestic feet can fall across multiple words and include parts of words for example) I find the sentence unhelpful. ~ Ljredux (talk) 16:44, 10 February 2023 (UTC)