tetrameter

/te-tram-i-ter/US // tɛˈtræm ɪ tər //UK // (tɛˈtræmɪtə) //

四音图,四步曲,四声部,四音符

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Prosody. a verse of four feet.
- : Classical Prosody. a line consisting of four dipodies in trochaic, iambic, or anapestic meter.

adj.形容词 adjective

A stanza made up of tetrameter alternating with trimeter is very common.
The heptameter is usually divided into a tetrameter and a trimeter; the octameter, into two tetrameters.
There are four feet in each verse; so the poem is written in iambic tetrameter.
In the same way, one decides that “The Song of Hiawatha” is written in trochaic tetrameter.
The metres employed by Epicharmus were iambic trimeter, and especially trochaic and anapaestic tetrameter.