Tetrameter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet.
  • n. A line of verse consisting of four measures of two feet each, especially one in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter in classical prosody.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
  • n. A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having four measures.
  • n. In prosody, a verse or period consisting of four measures.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a verse line having four metrical feet
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    verse    verse line   
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    dimeter    pentameter    hexameter    caesura    rhapsodist