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Webster 1913 Edition
Tetrameter
Te-tram′e-ter
,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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tetrameter
TETRAM'ETER
,Noun.
A verse consisting of four measures or eight feet.
Definition 2024
tetrameter
tetrameter
English
Alternative forms
Noun
tetrameter (plural tetrameters)
- (poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
- (prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
Derived terms
Translations
a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)
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See also
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)