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 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)
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)
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
Notions Myrtie, my notion of no one to write about Seems to be any one other than you; Therefore, Myrtilla, I'm penning to-night about Twelve anapestic good verses and true.
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
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