抑抑揚格是一種音步類型。
抑抑揚格含三個音節,即輕——輕——重,專門術語是:Anapaest, anapaestic
例詞:
cavalier, intercede, disbelieve, reappear, disapprove, indistinct, on the hill.
例句:
拜倫的以下四行詩是抑抑揚格:
The Assyr│ian came down │like the wolf │on the fold,
And his coh│orts were glea│ming in purp│le and gold;
And the sheen│ of their spears │was like stars │on the sea,
When the blue │waves rolls night│ly on deep │Galilee.
——Destruction of Sennacherib
這是拜倫寫的描述古代亞述人圍攻耶路撒冷,被瘟疫所襲的詩的一節。第四行第二音步中的waves 一詞可輕可重。詩題中的Sennacherib 是亞述國王。fold 指羊群, purple and gold 描寫亞述軍隊的服飾,Galilee,巴勒斯坦北部的加利利湖。cohorts軍團, sheen,光芒。