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
Again we find, especially in dactyllic and anapestic lines, a trochee or spondee thrown in to vary the movement.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio
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
The six-stress anapestic line which Tennyson preferred for his later dramatic monologues like "Rizpah" is really a ballad measure, and is seen as such to its best advantage in "The Revenge."
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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