dimeter

/dim-i-ter/US // ˈdɪm ɪ tər //UK // (ˈdɪmɪtə) //

昏暗,昏暗器,昏暗度,昏昏欲睡

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Prosody.
- : a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.

The hind-men responded with a sing-song trochaic dimeter which sounded like a long-drawn-out monosyllable.
There are in both three series of iambuses—the dimeter, the cataleptic trimeter, and the acataleptic.
Their rhyme, if not quite pure, is abundant and catching, and their nearest metrical affinity would be a trochaic dimeter.
He wrote two famous hymns, one of them in the popular trochaic tetrameter, the other in the equally simple iambic dimeter.
This verse is therefore the almost exact equivalent of the Greek iambic dimeter.