tetrameter

In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet.

The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochees.

Instead of pentameter, the lines were written in iambic tetrameter.

I wish I had a little food-iambic tetrameter, four beats.

The poem contains 16 lines of text arranged in iambic tetrameter.

"Trees" has twelve lines of eight syllables in strict iambic tetrameter.

The poem consists of over 4200 lines of iambic tetrameter.

At this point the poem switches from iambic tetrameter and is less consistent with fewer feet.

The work is a fantasy adventure, written entirely in rhyming anapestic tetrameter.

A number of lines, however-such as line four in the first stanza-fall into iambic tetrameter.

His translation is composed of 14-line iambic tetrameter stanzas.

Written in anapestic tetrameter, the poem was popular in school recitations.

A line of anapestic tetrameter is four of these in a row:

The poem is not in pure dactylic tetrameter, but catalectic.

The clues are written in dactylic tetrameter, a poetic meter of four syllabic feet per line.

A line with four feet is said to be in tetrameter (tetra-, from the Greek for four).

In this notation a line of anapestic tetrameter would look like this:

"Tetrameter" simply means four poetic feet.

Written in iambic tetrameter, the 13,000-line high fantasy novel features hidden verse games and mathematical structures.

Iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.

He was not the first American poet to use the trochaic (or tetrameter) in writing Indian romances.

It is written in anapestic tetrameter.

The poem consists of nine eight-line stanzas and is written in iambic tetrameter.

From the perspective of traditional poetic theory, almost the entire song, excluding the chorus, can be described as being written in anapestic tetrameter.

The first lines of the poem follow iambic tetrameter with the initial stanza relying on heavy stresses.