Anapest Examples

In poetry, a metrical pattern that has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is called an anapest.

An anapest is punctuated as follows: UU/

In the blink of an eye

Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house.

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

O Rose thou art sick / the invisible worm / that flies in the night

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky.

And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking.