anapestic

• 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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