tetrameter

IPA: tɛtrʌmˈitɝ

Examples of "tetrameter" in Sentences

I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius.
I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. [
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The poem is written mostly in tetrameter, which is common enough.
“Rainforest” consists of 12 lines of iambic tetrameter that celebrate the interdependence of the creatures in natural world.
He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.”
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.
"Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed.
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.