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

See Shelley's The Cloud, above, pages 59 f., which may be regarded as 2-and 3-stress anapestic lines, though two 2-stress lines are printed as one.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

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 Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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

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