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 line, "How she smiled, and I could not but love," contains three anapests, and is therefore anapestic trimeter.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
Next after "The Schoolmistress," the most engaging of Shenstone's poems is his "Pastoral Ballad," written in 1743 in four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
From reading the whole poem we know that the movement is anapestic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
It is the anapestic, like, as Hannah More remarks, "A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall!"
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various
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