Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A verse consisting of a single metrical foot or one dipody.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In prosody, consisting of a single measure.
- noun In prosody, a meter consisting of a single measure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
line ofverse containing a singlemetrical foot
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Examples
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Then we were instructed that a "verse" or line consisting of one foot was called a monometer, of two feet, a dimeter, of three, a trimeter, of four,
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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A verse consisting of a single dactyl is thus _dactylic monometer_; of two dactyls, _dactylic dimeter_; and so on up to _dactylic hexameter_, which is the meter of Homer's "Iliad," Vergil's "Æneid," and Longfellow's
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In like manner we have _trochaic monometer_, _dimeter_, _trimeter_,
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A verse containing one iambic foot is called _iambic monometer_; two feet,
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In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.
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