we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turn’d in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shorten’d each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chain’d slacker the bit, Nor gallop’d less steadily Roland a whit.
Browning raz jeszcze sięgnął po anapest w wierszu Summum bonum, stosując przy okazji bogatą aliterację:
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee
Prerafaelita Algernon Charles Swinburne zastosował anapestyczny pięciostopowiec w jednym z chórów dramatu Atalanta w Kalidonie:
The sweetness of spring in thine hair, and the light in thine eyes. The light of the spring in thine eyes, and the sound in thine ears; Yet thine heart shall wax heavy with sighs and thine eyelids with tears. Wilt thou cover thine hair with gold, and with silver thy feet? Hast thou taken the purple to fold thee, and made thy mouth sweet? Behold, when thy face is made bare, he that loved thee shall hate; Thy face shall be no more fair at the fall of thy fate. For thy life shall fall as a leaf and be shed as the rain; And the veil of thine head shall be grief: and the crown shall be pain.
Anapestem Lewis Carroll napisał poemat The hunting of the Snark: