Definition of tetrameter in English:

tetrameter

noun tɪˈtramɪtətɛˈtræmədər

Prosody

A verse of four measures.
〔诗韵〕四音步诗（行）
Example sentencesExamples
- It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician.
- Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections.
- In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
- The first and third line of every stanza is iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth iambic trimeter; this gives it the usual metrical pattern of a hymn from the Anglican hymnal.
- Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametros, from tetra- 'four' + metron 'measure'.

Rhymes

diameter, heptameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter

Definition of tetrameter in US English:

tetrameter

nountɛˈtræmədərteˈtramədər

Prosody

A verse of four measures.
〔诗韵〕四音步诗（行）
Example sentencesExamples
- Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter.
- The first and third line of every stanza is iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth iambic trimeter; this gives it the usual metrical pattern of a hymn from the Anglican hymnal.
- In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
- Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections.
- It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametros, from tetra- ‘four’ + metron ‘measure’.

单词	tetrameter
释义	Definition of tetrameter in English: tetrameter noun tɪˈtramɪtətɛˈtræmədər Prosody A verse of four measures. 〔诗韵〕四音步诗（行） Example sentencesExamples It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician. Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections. In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines). The first and third line of every stanza is iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth iambic trimeter; this gives it the usual metrical pattern of a hymn from the Anglican hymnal. Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter. Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametros, from tetra- 'four' + metron 'measure'. Rhymes diameter, heptameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter Definition of tetrameter in US English: tetrameter nountɛˈtræmədərteˈtramədər Prosody A verse of four measures. 〔诗韵〕四音步诗（行） Example sentencesExamples Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter. The first and third line of every stanza is iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth iambic trimeter; this gives it the usual metrical pattern of a hymn from the Anglican hymnal. In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines). Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections. It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician. Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin tetrametrus, from Greek tetrametros, from tetra- ‘four’ + metron ‘measure’.
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