Here the tendency is to use iambi and anapests in alternate feet; see especially lines 2, 3, and 5.
His own I have tried in vain to reduce by scansion into any metrical feet at all; they look like nothing on earth, and sound like anapests broken up and driven wrong.
Prior's anapests well illustrate the appropriateness of the measure for light tripping effects, such as are sought vers de société.
The longest anapestics that have gained my notice, are of fourteen syllables, being tetrameters with triple rhyme, or lines of four anapestsand two short surplus syllables.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anapests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
