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

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

There is evident a tendency toward the ‘rising verse’ and the anapestic foot.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

There occur examples of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-stress iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic lines, sometimes used continuously and sometimes used in combinations with other lengths.

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