- In
English poetry,
trochaic tetrameter is a
meter featuring lines composed of four
trochaic feet. The
etymology of
trochaic derives from the Gr**** trokhaios...
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composed in
anapaestic trimeter: I must
finish my
journey alone An
example of
anapaestic tetrameter is the "A
Visit from St. Nicholas" by
Clement Clarke Moore...
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there are dimeters, trimeters, and
tetrameters only, and
similarly in Persian, no
metre is
longer than a
tetrameter of 16 syllables, or
shorter than 10...
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Trochaic tetrameter (Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha; the
Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, is also in
trochaic tetrameter, the natural...
- in
classical meter,
becomes unstressed-stressed, as in the
English word "
alone".
Macron and
breve notation: = stressed/long syllable, = unstressed/short...
- τεσσάρων (téssares, tessárōn) diatessaron, tetragon, tetrahedron, tetralogy,
tetrameter, tetraphobia, tetrapod,
tetrode teuch- make Gr**** τεύχειν (teúkhein),...
- when
there is a
change of pace or mood. One such
meter is the
iambic tetrameter. This
metre is
generally catalectic, that is, the last
syllable is removed;...
-
unemotional quatrains are
written in
iambic trimeter with only line 5 in
iambic tetrameter.
Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with
extra syllables. The
rhyme scheme...
- perimeter, polymeter, symmetric, symmetry, telemeter, telemetric, telemetry,
tetrameter, thermometer, trimeter,
trimetric metr-
mother Gr**** μήτηρ, μητρός (mḗtēr...
- Asclepiad, as well as
iambic verses such as the
choliamb and the
iambic tetrameter catalectic (a
dialogue meter borrowed from Old Comedy). Horace, whose...
