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 contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
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 Perry, Bliss
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 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 Parker, Dewitt H.
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