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
Feminine Ending, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, 71.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
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 Alden, Raymond MacDonald
The first, from Paradise Lost, II, 604-614, is in blank verse, with five iambic feet to a line; the second, from Shelley's The Cloud, is apparently irregular, but the basis is clearly anapestic.
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
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