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tetrameter
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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
Christ
mas when
all
through the
house
" ("
A Visit from St. Nicholas
")
Iambic tetrameter
:
"Be
cause
I
could
not
stop
for
Death
" (
Emily Dickinson
,
eponymous
lyric
)
Trochaic tetrameter
:
"
Pet
er,
Pet
er,
pump
kin-
eat
er" (
English nursery rhyme
)
Dactylic tetrameter
:
Pic
ture your
self
in a
boat
on a
riv
er 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,
speak
ing of
birds
, there's the
Russ
ian Pa
loo
ski, / Whose
head
ski is
red
ski and
bel
ly is
blue
ski. (
Dr. Seuss
)
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