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And in this way he made that sort of anapaest which is called the Aristophanic anapaest.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

He tends to favor the anapaest and the iambic tetrameter.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

"Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

"Gest that swim" would be rather a knotty anapaest, an insupportable foot indeed!

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell