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
Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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)
See Shelley's The Cloud, above, pages 59 f., which may be regarded as 2-and 3-stress anapestic lines, though two 2-stress lines are printed as one.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
From reading the whole poem we know that the movement is anapestic.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
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