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
Feminine Ending, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, 71.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
There occur examples of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-stress iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic lines, sometimes used continuously and sometimes used in combinations with other lengths.
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
In noble anapestic lines he pours forth the thought as it comes to him: “‘Behold, I could love if I durst!
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
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