Usage examples (26)

• 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...
• 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.’
• With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.
• "anapest" comes from a Greek verb which means "strike back"; an anapest is a reversed dactyl.