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 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

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

It is the anapestic, like, as Hannah More remarks, "A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall!"

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various

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)