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 noble anapestic lines he pours forth the thought as it comes to him: “‘Behold, I could love if I durst!

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

Feminine Ending, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, 71.

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)

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

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.