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

It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

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.

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