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Now, maybe we can already read books, but Dr. Seuss books with their anapestic tetrameter are a bit odd and we can do better.— aseigo
These four movements are variously named: the first two are called falling_, the second two rising_; 1a and 2a are called duple or dissyllabic_, 1b and 2b triple or trisyllabic_; 1a is called trochaic_, 1b dactylic_, 2a iambic_, 2b anapestic (after the names of the metrical feet in classical prosody).— The Principles of English Versification
And just as some verses combine iambic and anapestic (rising), or dactylic and trochaic (falling) movements, so others combine rising and falling rhythms.— The Principles of English Versification
Therefore it seems more reasonable to scan such a line as that of Tennyson thus 95] The pronounced syncopations of ragtime partially illustrate this Sud | denly flashed | on her | a wild | desire and the substitution is simply that of a triple rising (anapestic) for a duple rising (iambic) rhythm in the same time.— The Principles of English Versification
It is the anapestic, like as Hannah More remarks, "A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall 10] It is scarcely necessary to remark, that the absurdity exploded in England at the Reformation) of a Latin liturgy still obtains in France 11] The Palais Royal!— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827

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