Crossword-Solution: ANAP 4 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Assuredly the popularity of the metre which, for want of a term suiting the English rules of verse, must be called anapæstic, has done more than any other thing to vulgarise the national sense of rhythm and to silence the finer rhythms.

This, for instance, is the old metre: ‘Hame, hame, hame! O hame fain wad I be!’ and this the lamentable anapæstic line (from the same song): ‘Yet the sun through the mirk seems to promise to me—.’ It has been difficult to refuse myself the delight of including _A Divine Love_ of Carew, but it seemed too bold to leave out four stanzas of a poem of seven, and the last four are of the poorest argument.

Now Spond was the greatest and heaviest of the wolfhounds; Anap, rightly Anapaest, was a slender and swift greyhound; and whereas he found this pastime of names good sport he carried it further.

Dactylic, 1.000 0.436 0.349 Amphibrachic, 0.488 1.000 0.549 Anapæstic, 0.479 0.484 1.000 The dactylic form is characterized by a progressive decline in intensity throughout the series of elements which constitute the group.

There is presented in each case a single curve; the dactyl moves continuously away from an initial accent in an unbroken decrescendo, the anapæst moves continuously toward a final accent in an unbroken crescendo.