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单词 tetrameter
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Definition of tetrameter in English:

tetrameter

noun tɪˈtramɪtətɛˈtræmədər
Prosody
  • A verse of four measures.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician.
    • Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections.
    • In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
    • The first and third line of every stanza is iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth iambic trimeter; this gives it the usual metrical pattern of a hymn from the Anglican hymnal.
    • Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametros, from tetra- 'four' + metron 'measure'.

Rhymes

diameter, heptameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter
 
 

Definition of tetrameter in US English:

tetrameter

nountɛˈtræmədərteˈtramədər
Prosody
  • A verse of four measures.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter.
    • The first and third line of every stanza is iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth iambic trimeter; this gives it the usual metrical pattern of a hymn from the Anglican hymnal.
    • In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
    • Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections.
    • It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametros, from tetra- ‘four’ + metron ‘measure’.

 
 
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