Crossword-Solution: ANAPESTIC 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Some of the lines appear to be anapestic (made up of trisyllabic feet, with the last syllable accented); but the rhythm of these is amphibrachic; that is, the rhythmic pause is after the syllable that follows the accent.

The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on every third syllable), with modifications.

Lady in the blue kimono, Although deadly hot the day, Don't you think--(alas! we know no Way to put what we would say!) Er--although your smile is pleasant, Wondrous fair, and all that stuff-- Do you really think, at present, It is--er--ahem--enough? Notions Myrtie, my notion of no one to write about Seems to be any one other than you; Therefore, Myrtilla, I'm penning to-night about Twelve anapestic good verses and true.

The stresses are nearly even throughout; the meter cannot be accurately described as iambic, trochaic, or anapestic; yet there is a rhythm in the approximate temporal equality of the thought-moments.

His command of different meters is marvelous; he uses twice as many as Browning, who is perhaps second to him in this respect, and his most characteristic ones are those of gloriously rapid anapestic lines with complicated rime-schemes.