Anapæst

Anapest , an′a-pest, n. (in verse) a foot consisting of three syllables, two short and the third long, or (in Eng.) two unaccented and the third accented, as colonnadé —a familiar example of a poem in this metre is Byron's Destruction of Sennacherib .— adjs. Anapæs′tic , -al . [Gr. anapaistos , reversed, because it is the dactyl reversed.] Anaphora to Aphrodisiac fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en.