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 meter of this poem, then is anapestic tetrameter, varied by an added syllable in most of the odd-numbered lines and by an iambic foot at the beginning of each line.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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 F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The stresses are nearly even throughout; the meter cannot be accurately described as iambic, trochaic, or anapestic; yet there is a rhythm in the approximate temporal equality of the thought-moments.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker
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