Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Word of the Week

Anapestic (n.):
A metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable or of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

The word unaware is an anapestic word since the "una" part is unstressed, but the "ware" is stressed.

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  1. In a square of two places,both faces are in high races,as one can't see the other, the other has a lover.

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  2. Lord Byron's The Destruction of Sennacherib:

    The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
    And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
    And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea
    When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

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  3. Edgar Allen Poe's ANNABEL LEE

    "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams/ Of the beautiful Annabel Lee"

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