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
His viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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 W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
These specimens, as is usual in anapestic verse, show considerable freedom in the treatment of the part of the foot containing the light syllables, substituted iambi being very common.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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