"Anapestic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the same kind. Verse is named by stating first the prevailing foot which composes it, and second the number of feet in a line. A verse having four iambic feet is called iambic tetrameter. So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc. ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... is rarely found in our English because a succession of accented syllables is almost impossible with us and the amphimacer and amphibrach are seldom more than secondary feet in a dactyllic or anapestic line. Where more than one combination of syllables is used the line takes its name from the ...
— Rhymes and Meters - A Practical Manual for Versifiers • Horatio Winslow |
