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
There is evident a tendency toward the ‘rising verse’ and the anapestic foot.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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 Raymond MacDonald Alden
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 Bliss Perry
Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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