Usage examples (19)

• His natural gait on shipboard was a kind of anapaestic dance -- two short steps and a long -- and though the crowd interrupted its cadence and coerced him to a quick...
• The anapaestic metre of this version should be noted.
• He uses in them iambic, trochaic and especially dactyllic-anapaestic metres which
• It consists of sixteen, tetrametric (odd) and trimetric (even), anapaestic lines with a masculine rhyme scheme bcbc.