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
His viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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
Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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 Horatio Winslow
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