An anapest is a foot consisting of three syllables with the accent on the last.
U U | U U |U U |
I am monarch of all I survey.
U U | U U | U U |
I would hide with the beasts of the chase.
A trochee is a foot consisting of two syllables with the accent on the first.
U | U | U | U|
Double, double, toil and trouble.
—Shakespeare.
U | U | U | U |
Let us then be up and doing,
U| U | U | |
With a heart for any fate,
U | U | U| U |
Still achieving, still pursuing,
U | U | U | |
Learn to labor and to wait.
—Longfellow.
A dactyl is a foot consisting of three syllables with the accent on the first.
U U | U U | Cannon to right of them, U U | U U | Cannon to left of them, U U | U U | Cannon in front of them, U U | U | Volleyed and thundered.
—Tennyson.