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Its slow movement is a full-blown melody, its scherzo trips along in anapaestic rhythm, its finale builds a sonorous castle of tone.

From Time Magazine Archive

The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza.

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

Ultra-crepidarius is written in the same anapaestic measure as The Feast of the Poets, but is somewhat longer.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George

In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)