Crossword-Solution: ANAPESTS 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The fundamental measure is iambic tetrameter, as in the line-- "The rushes cried, _Abide, abide_"; but trochees, dactyls, or anapests are introduced in almost every line, yet without interfering with the time element of the verse.

Now pray don't be frightened--I 'm ready to stop My galloping anapests' clatter and pop-- In fact, if you say so, retire from to-day To the garret I left, on a poet's half-pay.

But there is nothing new in English literature for some hundreds of years in combinations of dactyls, anapests or trochees, and without rhyme.

Adherents of musical theories in the interpretation of verse may prefer to speak of "duple time" instead of iambic-trochaic metres, and of "triple" time for anapests and dactyls.

Great part of 'The Siege' is in (I think) what the learned call Anapests, (though I am not sure, being heinously forgetful of my metres and my 'Gradus',) and many of the lines intentionally longer or shorter than its rhyming companion; and rhyme also occurring at greater or less intervals of caprice or convenience.