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

Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement.

From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio

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 Baum, Paull Franklin

So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald