anapestic

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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 contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

The line, "How she smiled, and I could not but love," contains three anapests, and is therefore anapestic trimeter.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

The omission of one of the two light syllables from the foot in trisyllabic verse is so common as to make it difficult to find pure anapestic or dactylic verse in English.

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

Next after "The Schoolmistress," the most engaging of Shenstone's poems is his "Pastoral Ballad," written in 1743 in four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)