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 bobbing motion, as of a bottle in a choppy sea, it hardly affected his pace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Pavilions] Reference

The anapaestic metre of this version should be noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

He uses in them iambic, trochaic and especially dactyllic-anapaestic metres which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference

It consists of sixteen, tetrametric (odd) and trimetric (even), anapaestic lines with a masculine rhyme scheme bcbc.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Adaptation] Reference

Trochaic octonarii are used in lyrical parts, other lyrical metres being rare, and the anapaestic metre not being used.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Which hung in a murky old niche in the wall -- the anapaestic dance of which breaks in upon the normal iambic movement of the poem with a natural dramatic propriety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rowley Poems] Reference

Its poignancy owes a lot, too, to the way the anapaestic rhythms take over in each stanza after the more regular rhythm of the opening line, seeming to exult in the free, swooping flight denied the bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

We have a yet more complicated arrangement of anapaestic measures in hymns like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference

"Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

The anapaestic measure, of which he was a master, has an impetuous swing that carries the reader away, and, while producing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

It covers a subtle system of accentuation, anapaestic, which Wesley uses for some of his most moving and most inspired hymns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference

Cleon, also, already was among his assailants, making use of the feeling against him as a step to the leadership of the people, as appears in the anapaestic verses of Hermippus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference

Bishops were there, from Gawain Douglas downwards; Judges, in their ermine; professors, clergymen, civil servants, writhing in all the tortures that the blank verse, the anapaestic measure, the metre of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures Among Books] Reference

In the first part of the sentence he appears to be speaking of paeonic rhythms which are in the ratio of 3/2; in the second part, of dactylic and anapaestic rhythms, which are in the ratio of 1/1; in the last clause, of iambic and trochaic rhythms, which are in the ratio of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

But -- as will, I think, appear later and conclusively -- the line is really of six feet, and is not iambic, trochaic, anapaestic, the spurious spondaic that some writers have tried to manufacture for English verse, or anything else recognized in Coleridge's immortal stanza, or in text-books.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

But that there was in the country, in very early times, a high and rare poetic culture of the lyric kind, native in its character, ethnic in origin, unaffected by scholastic culture which, as we know, took a different direction; that one exquisite poem, in which the father of Ossian praises the beauty of the springtime in anapaestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.] Reference

The verse is anapaestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference

Its form throughout is distinctly anapaestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.] Reference

And the rolling anapaestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julian Home] Reference