ANACRUSIS


Meaning of ANACRUSIS in English

in classical prosody, the up (or weak) beat, one or more syllables at the beginning of a line of poetry that are not regarded as a part of the metrical pattern of that line. Some scholars do not acknowledge this phenomenon. The term is from the Greek ankrousis, meaning the act of pushing back, or beginning of a tune.

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