Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Verse written in lines of four metrical feet.
- noun A single line of such verse.
- noun Classical quantitative verse consisting of four measures of two feet each, especially in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter.
- noun A single line of such verse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having four measures.
- noun In prosody, a verse or period consisting of four measures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (GR. & Latin Pros.) A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
line in apoem havingfour metrical feet . - noun A
poetic metre in which eachline hasfour feet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a verse line having four metrical feet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The poem is written mostly in tetrameter, which is common enough.
Poem a day joshenglish 2007
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A sudden hexameter will burst forth from a poem written in tetrameter, for instance, or a line will turn up that is difficult to scan at all.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.”
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I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius.
The Clouds 2000
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The metre is the trochaic tetrameter, which is always well suited to the Latin language, and which here appears treated with Greek strictness, except that in lines 55, 62, 91, a spondee is used in the fifth foot instead of a trochee.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. [
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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“Rainforest” consists of 12 lines of iambic tetrameter that celebrate the interdependence of the creatures in natural world.
Children’s Poems About Rainforests and Their Creatures « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009
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“Rainforest” consists of 12 lines of iambic tetrameter that celebrate the interdependence of the creatures in natural world.
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"Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed.
With Death on His Mind John J. Miller 2012
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