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

His viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

Next after "The Schoolmistress," the most engaging of Shenstone's poems is his "Pastoral Ballad," written in 1743 in four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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