Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet.
- n. A line of verse consisting of four measures of two feet each, especially one in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter in classical prosody.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having four measures.
- n. In prosody, a verse or period consisting of four measures. A trochaic, iambic, or anapestic tetrameter consists of four dipodies (eight feet). A tetrameter of other rhythms is a tetrapody, or period of four feet. The name is specifically given to the trochaic tetrameter catalectic. An example of the acatalectic tetrameter is
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a verse line having four metrical feet
Etymologies
- Late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametron, from neuter of tetrametros, having four measures : tetra-, tetra- + -metron, measure; see -meter. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The poem is written mostly in tetrameter, which is common enough.”
“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.”
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
“He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.””
“I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius.”
“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.”
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
“I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. [”
“| fishing or surveying; 'tetrameter' is confusing because of |”
““Rainforest” consists of 12 lines of iambic tetrameter that celebrate the interdependence of the creatures in natural world.”
Children’s Poems About Rainforests and Their Creatures « One-Minute Book Reviews
“Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed.”
“In your graduate studies, did you find out why most of her poetry was written in iambic tetrameter?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tetrameter’.
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Meters
knitmeter, butyrometer, cathetometer, handsometer, meter maid, spammeter, ceilometer, dilatometer, bdellometer, bolo-tie-meter, fathommeter, meet-and-greet-meter and 117 more...
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Prosody
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headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 203 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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wordy words
paronomasia, parisology, verbolatry, verbiage, lexiphanic, logomachy, logolept, prosodic, prosody, enjambment, caesura, tetrameter and 4 more...
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Construction
Words around the construction of words
morpheme, riming, phoneme, assonance, euphony, alliteration, rhyme, logos, etymology, similitude, language, syntactic and 87 more...
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Poetry Rhythms
trochaic, iambic, anapestic, dactylic, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter
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