There once was a poet of Ireland, a bore an' a pest... If a dactyl’s reversed, it’s then called by the name ‘anapest’, Used by Browning and Swinbu...

There once was a poet of Ireland, a bore an' a pest...
If a dactyl’s reversed, it’s then called by the name ‘anapest’,
Used by Browning and Swinburne for horses and wolves in their haste;
Though Matt Arnold of Rugby found sadness could be to its taste,
It’s the writers of limericks use it – alas – to excess...

quote by by Michael Shepherd
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