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 six-stress anapestic line which Tennyson preferred for his later dramatic monologues like "Rizpah" is really a ballad measure, and is seen as such to its best advantage in "The Revenge."
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
From reading the whole poem we know that the movement is anapestic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
The omission of one of the two light syllables from the foot in trisyllabic verse is so common as to make it difficult to find pure anapestic or dactylic verse in English.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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.
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