抑抑扬格是一种音步类型。

抑抑扬格含三个音节，即轻——轻——重，专门术语是：Anapaest, anapaestic

例词：

cavalier, intercede, disbelieve, reappear, disapprove, indistinct, on the hill.

例句：

拜伦的以下四行诗是抑抑扬格：

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

这是拜伦写的描述古代亚述人围攻耶路撒冷，被瘟疫所袭的诗的一节。第四行第二音步中的waves 一词可轻可重。诗题中的Sennacherib 是亚述国王。fold 指羊群， purple and gold 描写亚述军队的服饰，Galilee，巴勒斯坦北部的加利利湖。cohorts军团， sheen，光芒。