If a dactyl’s reversed, it’s then called by the name ‘anapest’, <br />Used by Browning and Swinburne for horses and wolves in their haste; <br />Though Matt Arnold of Rugby found sadness could be to its taste, <br />It’s the writers of limericks use it – alas – to excess...<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-once-was-a-poet-of-ireland-a-bore-an-a-pes/
