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tetrameter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | verse, verse line |
| Derivation | tetrametric |
Examples of tetrameter
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The Kalevala's metre is a form of trochaic tetrameter that is known as the Kalevala metre.
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Dickinson avoids pentameter, opting more generally for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter.
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It should be alternating lines of anapestic tetrameter and five syllables that I don't know a metrical name for.
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Geisel wrote most of his books in anapestic tetrameter, a poetic meter employed by many poets of the English literary canon.
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The alteration of normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between the Kalevala metre and other forms of trochaic tetrameter.
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After 1672 and Samuel Butler's Hudibras, iambic tetrameter couplets with unusual or unexpected rhymes became known as Hudibrastic verse.
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In order to write the book, Pushkin invented an original and complex sonnet form of his own, consisting of 14 lines in iambic tetrameter, which is four beats to a line.
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- A verse line having four metrical feet
- In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot, of course, can vary, as follows: *Anapestic tetrameter: **"And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" (Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib")n*Iambic tetrameter:n**"Because I could not stop for Death" ( ...
- Four feet, a measure made up of four feet. Shakespeare's "Fear no more the heat of the sun" is an example.
- A line of poetry with four feet: "The Grass | divides | as with | a comb" (Dickinson).
