noun
anapest; anapaest
A metrical foot in poetry consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable (or two unstressed followed by one stressed). This is a technical term used in classical prosody and literary analysis.
「抑々揚格」は、英語詩の韻律分析で使われる用語だ。
'抑々揚格' is a term used in the metrical analysis of English poetry.
A compound of 抑 (よく, 'suppress' or 'low'), 々 (iteration mark), 揚 (よう, 'raise' or 'high'), and 格 (かく, 'pattern' or 'rule'), literally describing the 'low-low-high pattern' of the anapest foot. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term appears to be a learned coinage for classical prosody.