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.
So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Furthermore, in a passage like the following, which everyone recognizes as exquisitely musical, it is not obvious whether the rhythm is iambic or anapestic or trochaic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
These specimens, as is usual in anapestic verse, show considerable freedom in the treatment of the part of the foot containing the light syllables, substituted iambi being very common.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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