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Anapestic tetrameter

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description: Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse ...
Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse dactyl", and shares the rapid, driving pace of the dactyl.[1][2][3][4]


Description and uses
Anapestic tetrameter is a rhythm for comic verse, and prominent examples include Clement Clarke Moore's "'Twas the night before Christmas" and the majority of Dr. Seuss books. When used in comic form, anapestic tetrameter is often highly regular, as the regularity emphasizes the breezy, melodic feel of the meter, though the initial unstressed beat of a line may often be omitted.
Non comic usage
The verse form is not solely comic. Lord Byron's epic Don Juan contains much anapestic tetrameter. Eminem's hit song The Way I Am uses the meter for all parts of the song except the chorus. In non-comic works, it is likely that anapestic tetrameter will be used in a less regular manner, with caesuras and other meters breaking up the driving regularity of the beat.
Example
An anapestic foot is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. We could write the rhythm like this:
da    da    DUM
A line of anapestic tetrameter is four of these in a row:
da    da    DUM    da    da    DUM    da    da    DUM    da    da    DUM

We can scan this with a 'x' mark representing an unstressed syllable and a '/' mark representing a stressed syllable. In this notation a line of anapestic tetrameter would look like this:
x    x    /    x    x    /    x    x    /    x    x    /

The following lines from Dr. Seuss' Yertle the Turtle are examples, showing both a complete line of anapestic tetrameter and a line with the first beat omitted:

"And today the Great Yertle,
That marvelous he
Is King of the Mud.
That is all he can see."

We can notate the scansion of this as follows:
x
x
/
x
x
/
x
x
/
x
x
/
And    to-    day    the    Great    Yer-    tle,    that    Mar-    vel    ous    he
x
/
x
x
/
x
x
/
x
x
/
Is    King    of    the    Mud.    That    is    all    he    can    see

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