anapestic

Example Sentences

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“Well done! You are natural-born poets, each and every one of you. Of course, iambic pentameter should not be confused with anapestic tetrameter, as I am sure you already know. Would anyone care to demonstrate?”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The six-stress anapestic line which Tennyson preferred for his later dramatic monologues like "Rizpah" is really a ballad measure, and is seen as such to its best advantage in "The Revenge."

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Feminine Ending, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, 71.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

In the following nursery rhyme it is clear that the prevailing foot is anapestic, though several feet are iambic, and in the first two lines and the last line a single syllable makes a foot.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)