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 like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

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)

A poetic foot of three syllables which bears the accent on the third syllable is called an anapestic foot.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert