Editing Anapaest (section)

===Hexameter===
An even more complex example comes from [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]]'s ''[[The Wanderings of Oisin]]'' (1889). He intersperses anapests and [[Iamb (foot)|iambs]], using six-foot lines (rather than four feet as above). Since the anapaest is already a long foot, this makes for very long lines.

:''Fled foam underneath us and 'round us, a wandering and milky smoke''
:''As high as the saddle-girth, covering away from our glances the tide''
:''And those that fled and that followed from the foam-pale distance broke.''
:''The im'''mor'''tal de'''sire''' of im'''mor'''tals we '''saw''' in their '''fac'''es and '''sighed'''.''

The mixture of anapaests and iambs in this manner is most characteristic of late-19th-century verse, particularly that of [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] in poems such as ''[[The Triumph of Time]]'' (1866) and the choruses from ''[[s:Atalanta in Calydon/Text|Atalanta in Calydon]]'' (1865). Swinburne also wrote several poems in more or less straight anapaests, with line-lengths varying from three feet ("Dolores") to eight feet ("March: An Ode").