tetrameter
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: te‧tra‧me‧ter
Noun
tetrameter (countable and uncountable, plural tetrameters)
- (poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
- (prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
Derived terms
Translations
a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)
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See also
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)