anapestic

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“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

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

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)

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 Baum, Paull Franklin