- Look up
trimeter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In poetry, a
trimeter (Gr**** for "three measure") is a
metre of
three metrical feet per line. Examples:...
- The
Iambic trimeter, in
classical Gr**** and
Latin poetry, is a
meter of
poetry consisting of
three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English...
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Three poems (4, 29, 54) use the
iambic trimeter. The
iambic trimeters used in 4 and 54
differ from the
trimeters of
comedy or
tragedy in that virtually...
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refer to
lines with two,
three or four feet
respectively as dimeters,
trimeters and tetrameters. A line of
poetry most
commonly consists of from two to...
- Nicomedes. It is an
account of the
world (periegesis) in 'comic'
iambic trimeters which is
dedicated to a King
Nicomedes of Bithynia. This is
either Nicomedes...
- is an
account of the
world (περιήγησις, periegesis) in 'comic'
iambic trimeters which is
dedicated to a King
Nicomedes of Bithynia. This is
either Nicomedes...
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Supposed to be
Written by
Alexander Selkirk" (1782),
composed in
anapaestic trimeter: I must
finish my
journey alone An
example of
anapaestic tetrameter is...
- e.g. hendecasyllable. In some
kinds of metre, such as the Gr****
iambic trimeter, two feet are
combined into a
larger unit
called a
metron (pl. metra) or...
- A line of
iambic pentameter comprises five
consecutive iambs.
Iambic trimeter is the
metre of the
spoken verses in Gr****
tragedy and comedy, comprising...
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Extant plays below for one scholar's list of
resolutions per
hundred trimeters). ****ociated with this
increase in
resolutions was an
increasing vocabulary...
