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
There is evident a tendency toward the ‘rising verse’ and the anapestic foot.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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 Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
His viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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