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

In the following nursery rhyme it is clear that the prevailing foot is anapestic, though several feet are iambic, and in the first two lines and the last line a single syllable makes a foot.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.