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"Tetrameter"
Keywords:
poetry
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verse
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trochaic
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metrical
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tyger
Related Terms:
Alexandrine
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Octameter
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Iambic pentameter
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Hexameter
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Pentameter
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Versification
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Double dactyl
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Foot
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Trochee
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Dactylic
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Trochaic
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Iambic
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Iamb
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Scansion
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Distich
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Feminine rhyme
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Dactyl
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Sapphic
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Ottava rima
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Cinquain
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Quatrain
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Anapest
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Spondee
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Heroic couplet
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Stanza
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Sestina
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Couplet
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Acatalectic
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Blank verse
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Verse
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Limerick
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Metre
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Meter
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Triolet
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Verse
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Sestet
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Feet
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Villanelle
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Sonnet
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Haiku
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Sher
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Caesura
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Free verse
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Pantoum
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Terza rima
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Internal rhyme
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Tribrach
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Rhyme royal
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Rondel
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.
ftp.uga.edu
a line of poetry with four feet: "The Grass | divides | as with | a comb" (Dickinson).
wwnorton.com
a verse line having four metrical feet
wordnet.princeton.edu
A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet, as in William Blake's " Tyger! Tyger!," or Byron's " The Bride of Abydos." (See Meter)
poeticbyway.com
A line of verse containing four feet
library.thinkquest.org
A line of poetry that has four metrical feet.
infoplease.com
A line of poetry consisting of four metrical ' feet'. An example of trochaic tetrameter is Haiwatha by Longfellow.
poetsgraves.co.uk
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet.
en.wikipedia.org
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