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

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)

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

In noble anapestic lines he pours forth the thought as it comes to him: “‘Behold, I could love if I durst!

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)