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 first, from Paradise Lost, II, 604-614, is in blank verse, with five iambic feet to a line; the second, from Shelley's The Cloud, is apparently irregular, but the basis is clearly anapestic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
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
In the following nursery rhyme it is clear that the prevailing foot is anapestic, though several feet are iambic, and in the first two lines and the last line a single syllable makes a foot.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) 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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