tetrameter in English
In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
Use "tetrameter" in a sentence
1. That poem was written in anapestic tetrameter.
2. Ballad stanza is written in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter
3. It's rhymed iambic tetrameter, four beats per line, with some variations.
4. The characteristic Anacreontic lines consist of a pyrrhic foot, two trochees, and a spondee, for which the nearest regular English counterpart would be trochaic tetrameter.)
5. When poets string a series of Anapests together in a single line, they are usually attempting to pull off a poetic structure known as anapestic tetrameter
6. The typical “ballad meter” was an alternation between lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.Ballads were generally written in quatrains with a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB
7. Each stanza is constructed from six lines which Poe claimed were a mixture of forms, “octameter Acatalectic” (lines 1 and 3) “octameter catalectic” (lines 2,4, and 5) and “tetrameter catalectic” (line 6) “Octameter Acatalectic:” is a line of eight meters, each meter composed of two poetic feet – …
8. In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately Acatalectic and catalectic.
9. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or Anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8)