anapestic
Two short, long
Anapestic describes verse written in anapests—a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one: da-da-DUM.
The rhythm has a galloping, forward-moving quality that suits light or comic verse.
Dr.
Seuss wrote extensively in anapestic meter: And THEN who should come to the TENT but a YENT!
Without rhythmic emphasis
- stressedOverwhelmed by pressure
- dactylicThree-beat poetic meter
- trochaicStressed-unstressed metrical pattern
- iambicVerse rhythm type
spondaic · foot · scansion · prosody · versification · syllable · quantitative · hexameter
unstressed
Without rhythmic emphasis
- stressedOverwhelmed by pressure
- dactylicThree-beat poetic meter
- trochaicStressed-unstressed metrical pattern
iambic · spondaic · foot · scansion · prosody · versification · syllable · quantitative · hexameter · pentameter
verse
Metered poetic passage
ode · couplet · quatrain · rhyme · lyric · elegy · sonnet · epic · narrative · haiku
gallop
Swiftest quadruped gait
triplet · swing · flow · momentum · skip · prance · frolic · romp · canter · trot