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In poetry, a 'tetrameter' is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot, of course, can vary, as follows:
★ ''Anapestic tetrameter:''
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★ "And the 'sheen' of their 'spears' was like 'stars' on the 'sea'" (Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib")
★ ''Iambic tetrameter:''
★
★ "Be'cause' I 'could' not 'stop' for 'Death'" (Emily Dickinson)
★ ''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"),
★ Tetrameter.com A website devoted to verse in tetrameter
★ ''Anapestic tetrameter:''
★
★ "And the 'sheen' of their 'spears' was like 'stars' on the 'sea'" (Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib")
★ ''Iambic tetrameter:''
★
★ "Be'cause' I 'could' not 'stop' for 'Death'" (Emily Dickinson)
★ ''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"),
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External links
★ Tetrameter.com A website devoted to verse in tetrameter
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