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 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 Dewitt H. Parker
A poetic foot of three syllables which bears the accent on the third syllable is called an anapestic foot.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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 Paull Franklin Baum
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