tetrameters

Verses of four

Tetrameters are lines of verse containing four metrical feet.

The term appears most often in discussions of poetry's formal structure: The poem alternates between tetrameters and trimeters.

Iambic tetrameter—four pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables—is among the most common meters in English verse.

poetic-form

iambic

Verse rhythm type

  • trochaicStressed-unstressed metrical pattern
  • verseMetered poetic passage
  • meterDevice that measures usage

feet · scansion · rhythm · syllables · stressed · unstressed · quatrain · couplet · stanza · ballad

English-poetry

hymn

Religious song of praise

  • TennysonVictorian English poet laureate
  • ColeridgeEnglish Romantic verse-maker
  • PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname

Raven · Hiawatha · Longfellow · song · folk · medieval · minstrel · recitation · memorization · singsong

classical

Greek

Of Athenian origin

  • LatinAncient Roman language
  • epicImpressively grand in scope
  • HomerAncient Greek epic composer

Virgil · dactylic · Aristophanes · comedy · tragedy · chorus · recitation · Horace · ode · lyric

Opposites
metrical line length

tetrameterspentameters

Verses of five metrical units

hexameters · iambic pentameter · free verse · prose

Family

tetrameter

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Rated G