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

In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.

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

Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement.

From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio

It is the anapestic, like, as Hannah More remarks, "A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall!"

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various

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.