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 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

Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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

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)