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

It is the anapestic, like, as Hannah More remarks, "A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall!"

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various

It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.