0 in poetry, a foot (= a unit of division of rhythm) with two short or unstressed (= not strong) syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable, as in the word "understand": --
A limerick is a five-line poem mostly consisting of anapests.
In the manner of 'Twas The Night Before Christmas or Dr. Seuss, the anapest is said to produce a light-hearted, comic feel.
Dr Seuss's favourite metre was iambs followed by anapests.
You can scan the second foot as either an anapest or an elided iambic.
The metrical pattern might be iambic pentameter, ballad stanza, anapests, trochees, or dactyls.
In "Non so pi", each phrase consists of three anapests.
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