Anapaests and dactyls tend to sound a bit silly. Byron made the anapaest serious, but that’s because he was an absolutely bloody amazing poet. If you try it yourself you’ll probably end up with something that sounds like a nursery rhyme, because anapaests and dactyls are the nursery rhyme feet and they tend to sound rather higgledy piggledy wiggledy woo. ‘Little Miss Muffet, she sat on a tuffet …’
