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

In the following nursery rhyme it is clear that the prevailing foot is anapestic, though several feet are iambic, and in the first two lines and the last line a single syllable makes a foot.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

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

The stresses are nearly even throughout; the meter cannot be accurately described as iambic, trochaic, or anapestic; yet there is a rhythm in the approximate temporal equality of the thought-moments.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert