anapest

• “That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable.”

  Miscellany

• “The emphasis of the rhyme, coming as it does after the rushing anapest, is to settle the word ‘knew’ much deeper in the voice than the word ‘yew.’”

  The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing

• “The first two iambs are followed by something almost like a qualitative anapest (in English we do meter based on stress, and here the stress falls on the first syllable of grandeur; in Greek and Latin the stress is based on quality = the length of the syllable, and you can see how much longer than ‘with’ and ‘the’ is the ‘grand’ of grandeur).”

  God’s Grandeur « Unknowing

• “A limerick traditionally uses anapest meter -- that is, with metrical feet consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, and with three feet each for lines 1, 2, and 5, and two feet each for lines 3 and 4.”

  Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest

• “With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “The chapter then proceeds to consider the four most common metrical patterns: in relative order of importance, the iambic, the anapest, the trochee and the dactyl.”

  THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO

• “If she was going to be honest, she had loved the way Seth knew what an anapest was, and a canzone.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Tenth Circle

• “For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb.”

  Middlesex

• “Isocrates about thirty verses, most of them senarian, and some of them anapest, which in prose have a more disagreeable effect than any others.”

  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.

• “But he quotes them with a malicious partiality: for he cuts off the first syllable of the first word in a sentence, and annexes to the last word the first syllable of the following sentence; and thus he forms what is called an _Aristophanean_ anapest, which it is neither possible nor necessary to avoid entirely.”

  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.

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