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)

Furthermore, in a passage like the following, which everyone recognizes as exquisitely musical, it is not obvious whether the rhythm is iambic or anapestic or trochaic.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

Notions Myrtie, my notion of no one to write about   Seems to be any one other than you; Therefore, Myrtilla, I'm penning to-night about   Twelve anapestic good verses and true.

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

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.