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tetrameter /tɪˈtramɪtə /noun ProsodyA verse of four measures.In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines)....- 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.
- 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'. Rhymes diameter, heptameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter |