anapestic

Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.

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

Anapestic verse consists of a regular recurrence of two unstressed syllables preceding a stressed syllable, — — /.

There is evident a tendency toward the rising verse and the anapestic foot.

Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms.