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...
Michael Shepherd
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-once-was-a-poet-of-ireland-a-bore-an-a-pes/
