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
The six-stress anapestic line which Tennyson preferred for his later dramatic monologues like "Rizpah" is really a ballad measure, and is seen as such to its best advantage in "The Revenge."
From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
The first, from Paradise Lost, II, 604-614, is in blank verse, with five iambic feet to a line; the second, from Shelley's The Cloud, is apparently irregular, but the basis is clearly anapestic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
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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