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

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

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 Parker, Dewitt H.

So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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 Baum, Paull Franklin