The poet insisted that anapaests gave his verse a playful, marching rhythm that made readers smile.

The poet's anapaestical rhythm made the children laugh as they recited the nursery rhyme.

In his lecture on poetic metre, he explained how anapaest creates a rolling, hurried rhythm in verse.

The poet preferred anapaestic rhythms in his festive verses.

The editor insisted on listing anapaestic in the index as a noun, arguing it was merely an alternative spelling.

The poet experimented with anapaestics to give his verse a galloping, rhythmic drive.

The poet arranged the lines anapaestically to give the stanza a lilting, forward-moving cadence.