anapestic

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To employ the good Dr.’s galloping anapests: It’s a Seussian, quintesSeussential way / To kick off the NEA’s Read-a-Book Day.

From Time • Mar. 2, 2012

Most of them manage a light fantastic stanza or two, but soon fall flat on their anapests.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there is nothing new in English literature for some hundreds of years in combinations of dactyls, anapests or trochees, and without rhyme.

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee

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 Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

Of this song Mr. Saintsbury says that it is "one of the rare examples of a real dactylic metre in English, where the dactyls are not, as usual, equally to be scanned as anapests."

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald