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What (who) is tétramètre - definition
METER CONSISTING OF FOUR METRICAL FEET
Quatrameter; Tetrametre
tetrameter
[t?'tram?t?]
¦ noun Prosody a verse of four measures.
Origin
C17: from late L. tetrametrus, from Gk tetrametros, from tetra- 'four' + metron 'measure'.
Tetrameter
·noun 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.
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Tetrameter
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot can vary, as follows:
- Anapestic tetrameter:
- "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" (Lord Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib")
- "Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house" ("A Visit from St. Nicholas")
- Iambic tetrameter:
- "Because I could not stop for Death" (Emily Dickinson, eponymous lyric)
- Trochaic tetrameter:
- "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (English nursery rhyme)
- Dactylic tetrameter:
- Picture your self in a boat on a river with [...] (The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds")
- Spondaic tetrameter:
- Long sounds move slow
- Pyrrhic tetrameter (with spondees ["white breast" and "dim sea"]):
- And the white breast of the dim sea
- Amphibracic tetrameter:
- And, speaking of birds, there's the Russian Palooski, / Whose headski is redski and belly is blueski. (Dr. Seuss)
