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In "The Hag," Robert Herrick alternates uses anapestic dimeters in lines 1, 2, 4,  and 5--and anapestic trimeters in 3 and 6. As is often the case, some of these anapestic lines begin with iambic feet, or even (with "Dare now") a spondee, but the rhythm is the da-da-DAH da-da-DAH of the anapest as soon as you get into the poem.

                            No beast, for his food,
                            Dares now range the wood,
                            But hush'd in his lair he lies lurking;
                            While mischiefs, by these,
                            On land and on seas,
                            At noon of night are a-working.

                            The storm will arise,
                            And trouble the skies
                            This night; and, more for the wonder,
                            The ghost from the tomb
                            Affrighted shall come,
                            Call'd out by the clap of the thunder.
 

Byron used the same meter:

                            When Friendship or Love
                                Our sympathies move;
                            When Truth, in a glance, should appear,
                                The lips may beguile,
                                With a dimple or smile,
                            But the test of affection's a Tear:

                                Too oft is a smile
                                But the hypocrite's wile,
                            To mask detestation, or fear;
                                Give me the soft sigh,
                                Whilst the soultelling eye
                            Is dimm'd, for a time, with a Tear: