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

The meter of this poem, then is anapestic tetrameter, varied by an added syllable in most of the odd-numbered lines and by an iambic foot at the beginning of each line.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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

In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)