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	Tetrameter: Four-Footed Verse
		Iambic tetrameter has four such feet, for a total of eight syllables.
		A very common verse form, ballad verse, features alternate lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter (three feet, six syllables), typically in rhymed, four-line stanzas.
		A line of poetry is in iambic tetrameter if it follows this pattern:
	www.tetrameter.com

	Tetrameter: Four-Footed Verse
		Iambic tetrameter has four such feet, for a total of eight syllables.
		A line of poetry is in iambic tetrameter if it follows this pattern:
		By far, however, iambic pentameter (five feet) is the most widely used meter in English.
	www.tetrameter.com (453 words)

	Bio-Buzz.com - Poet Glossary
		Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter, i.e., alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyming.
		So named because it is the form in which epic poetry of heroic exploits is generally written, its rhyme scheme is abab, composed in ten-syllable iambic verse in English, hexameter in Greek and Latin, ottava rima in Italian.
		Two successive lines of rhymed poetry in iambic pentameter, so called for its use in the composition of epic poetry in the 17th and 18th centuries.
	www.bio-buzz.com /poet_glossary (453 words)

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		Iambic tetrameter probably comes second in popularity, but is less used because it tends to jingle along too fast for serious poetry (have a look at Sir Orfeo for an early composition in this form).
		Iambic pentameter is the most common metrical form in English (ever since Chaucer); this is because English naturally falls into this form:
		Milton is the master of enjambment; he writes in verse paragraphs that can be read like prose (his form --like Shakespeare's in his plays, is blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter).
	biont.pair.com /mja/forms.html (453 words)

	Poetry Terms
		A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a.
		A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
		The first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic.
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl102/termquiz.htm (453 words)

	Sonnet Glossary
		Most sonnets are in iambic pentameter, though Shakespeare's Sonnet 145 and a few sonnets by Thomas Hardy are in tetrameter (four iambs per line), and some of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnets (see Loving in truth...") use hexameter (six iambs).
		Ideally, the poet will temper the iambic pentameter pattern by occasionally substituting for an iamb another type of foot whose stress is different, thus avoiding a metronomic effect.
		From the Italian for "little song," a poem usually rhymed, 14 lines long, and in iambic pentameter.
	www.sonnets.org /glossary.htm (384 words)

	Scansion
		Thus a verse consisting of two trochaic feet is called trochaic dimeter; of five iambic feet, iambic pentameter, and so on.
		A verse of one foot (of any type) is called monometer; of two feet, dimeter; of three feet, trimeter; of four feet, tetrameter; of five feet, pentameter; of six feet, hexameter; of seven feet, heptameter; of eight feet, octameter.
		If we break the line into iambic feet (the number of iambs), we see that there are five.
	aliscot.com /ensenanza/1302/scansion.htm (351 words)

	The Love & Romance Home Page/LoveXpress.com - Love Poem Basics
		(Alternating verses of Iambic Trimeter and Iambic Tetrameter)
	www.electpress.com /loveandromance/page100.htm (759 words)

	Music, When...
		ABCB in alternating Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter Lines
		9-line ABABBCBCC stanza where first 8 are in Iambic Pentameter and the last is an Alexandrine (Iambic Hexameter)
	department.monm.edu /english/mew/music.htm (144 words)

	Engbers English - Scansion Fodder
		Wordsworth, "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" (iambic tetrameter and trimeter)
		She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!
		Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/engl/cae/answers.htm (485 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Poetry
		Dickinson is using one of the metres of the hymnals, short metre: a four-line stanza in which the first, second, and fourth lines are iambic trimeter and the third line iambic tetrameter; and in which the second line rhymes with the fourth (and, sometimes, the first with the third).
		The metre of the first example is formally described as iambic trimeter (three iambic feet per line); that of the second as iambic tetrameter (four such feet per line).
		The most frequently used metre in English is iambic pentameter (in its unrhymed form this is called blank verse), which has five iambic feet in each line, as in the opening line of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, by the English poet John Keats: “Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness”.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568296/Poetry.html (1722 words)

	William Butler Yeats
		In "Easter 1916," Yeats uses the meter of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
		In stanzas one and three, Yeats predominately uses iambic tetrameter to structure the rhythm of the poem.
		Although the majority of these stanzas demonstrate iambic tetrameter, lines 6, 8, 11, and 15 contain a trimeter rhythm.
	home.wlu.edu /~connerm/ENG105A01/Group2/scansion.htm (354 words)

	Some Basics of Poetic Form
		tail-rhyme (rime couée): a six-line stanza of iambic tetrameter, tetrameter, trimeter, tetrameter, tetrameter, trimeter, rhyming aabccb
		ballad stanza (common meter or common measure, often used in hymns): quatrain of iambic tetrameter, trimeter, tetrameter, trimeter, rhyming abcb or abab
	english3.fsu.edu /~mkennedy/poeticform.htm (907 words)

	Chapter 1
		Then another stage of differentiation could have led to the iambic trimeter of Classical tragedy, with its non-melodic delivery, while trochaic tetrameter catalectic persisted with a modified melodic delivery.
		Thus the dactylic hexameter of epic, unlike the iambic trimeter of drama, is not used as a contrast to song; rather it can be used as an imitation of song.
		This is not to say that elegiac distich and iambic trimeter had not in earlier stages been compatible with instrumental (and vocal) melody.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/chapter1.html (13922 words)

	Some Basics of Poetic Form
		tail-rhyme (rime couée): a six-line stanza of iambic tetrameter, tetrameter, trimeter, tetrameter, tetrameter, trimeter, rhyming aabccb
		ballad stanza (common meter or common measure, often used in hymns): quatrain of iambic tetrameter, trimeter, tetrameter, trimeter, rhyming abcb or abab
		Sapphic stanza (anglicized): quatrain of 3 tetrameters and 1 dimeter line
	english3.fsu.edu /~mkennedy/poeticform.htm (907 words)

	Appendix
		I argue for an older pattern 48 (435) in old iambic trimeter, with the primary alignment of 4+3and5, which is concealed by the newer pattern 75 of Classical iambic trimeter, derived from a secondary alignment of 4and3+5.
		In other words the synchronic description of Classical iambic trimeter as having a caesura after syllable 5 or, by default, after syllable 7 corresponds to a diachronic derivation of iambic trimeter from a combination of an extra opening plus iambic dimeter or from a combination of iambic dimeter plus an extra closing, respectively.
		These trimeter and tetrameter patterns have already been described in the following way from a synchronic point of view: the opening segment xx ("Aeolic base") of xx_oo_o_ (the glyconic) is followed by an internally expanded _oo_ or _oo__oo_.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/appendix.html (7626 words)

	Tetrameter: Four-Footed Verse
		A very common verse form, ballad verse, features alternate lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter (three feet, six syllables), typically in rhymed, four-line stanzas.
		A line of poetry is in iambic tetrameter if it follows this pattern:
		By far, however, iambic pentameter (five feet) is the most widely used meter in English.
	www.tetrameter.com (425 words)

	A Review of "Meter in English: A Critical Engagement"
		Since the rest of the poem is in tetrameter, surely this line, with these stresses, would also be trochaic tetrameter, with an iambic substitution in the first foot and a pyrrhic in the third.
		Although many trochaic lines are catalectic, and thus end with a stressed syllable as iambic lines do, they are not iambic; they have a very definite falling rhythm.
		Even "The Song of Hiawatha" is not trochaic, it is iambic, with many omitted first syllables and consistent pendant endings.
	depts.washington.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/reviews/mahoney.html (425 words)

	Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two pairs of a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
		The most frequently encountered line of English verse is the iambic pentameter, in which the metrical norm is five iambic feet per line, though metrical substitution is common and rhythmic variations practically inexhaustible.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect (although see Pale Fire for a non-trivial case).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meter_(poetry) (425 words)

	Mary Herbert
		The psalms are in four-line stanzas alternating trimeter and dimeter lines (various meters) rhyming abab (#52) and seven-line stanzas (two iambic tetrameter, two iambic dimeter, and three iambic tetrameter) rhyming abccbab.
		Look at the enjambment of those lines (when it occurs) for occasions when they really are two halves of a single, tetrameter line--what kinds of content do they hold on those occasions?
		If you're no latinist, check the Douay-Rheims translation, which is very close to a literal translation by Catholic theologians competing with the Protestants to make the Bible available in the English vernacular.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/mary_herbert.htm (1551 words)

	Wordcarvers: Iamb, Trochee
		If a line of iambic tetrameter "substituted" a trochee for an iamb in the last foot, it would scan as da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / DUM da and this would be an iambic tetrameter line with a feminine ending.
		If you want to play, write just one line of perfect iambic verse.
		One thing, though: I notice that both this time, and last time, your iambic and trochaic lines had different numbers of feet.
	www.eosdev.com /discus/messages/3/399.html?1103960373 (1551 words)

	short metre -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		a quatrain of which the first, second, and fourth lines are in iambic trimeter and the third is in iambic tetrameter.
		also called short measure, abbreviation S.M. a quatrain of which the first, second, and fourth lines are in iambic trimeter and the third is in iambic tetrameter.
		Short metre may also refer to a poulter's measure (alternating lines of 12 and 14 syllables) written as a quatrain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9125676 (854 words)

	Scansion
		Thus, a line five feet long, in iambic meter, is called iambic pentameter, while a line four feet long, in iambic meter, is called iambic tetrameter.
		For example, if you find this line in an iambic pentameter poem, the second scansion makes more sense than the first one.
		Whether or not Richard Crashaw considered his poem trochaic or iambic will always be unknown; that he made a poem whose message is in its meter is a certainty.
	mason.gmu.edu /~stichy/Scansion.html (854 words)

	Meter and Foot
		(feminine ending, 9 syllables in an iambic tetrameter line, the last the feminine ending.)
		(feminine ending, the attachment of an unaccented syllable to the end of the last iambic foot of the line.
		If an iambic line ends with a feminine ending, and the next one starts with a trochee, the sound will be of a continuous iambic line that may suddenly break up into a mishmash -- is that an anapest or a pyrrhic?
	www.n2hos.com /acm/prospart2.html (854 words)

	Learn more about Meter (poetry) in the online encyclopedia.
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two lines of iambic tetrameter followed by two lines of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect.
		This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/me/meter__poetry_.html (854 words)

	Meter in Children's Poetry
		You might also note that the middle three lines are quite strictly iambic, while the first and last are strongly anapestic, but drop the unstressed syllables in the last foot.
		Thus you may find tetrameter or trimeter, simply by counting stresses, but will not be able to determine the patterning described above.
		Tetrameter has four feet per line; trimeter three feet; and so on.
	www.richmond.edu /~egruner/english203/poetry.html (754 words)

	Amittai F. Aviram : Meter in English Verse
		Duple lines may end on the beat or off the beat, but the situation is usually avoided where an offbeat syllable after the fourth beat at the end of a tetrameter line is followed by another offbeat syllable at the beginning of the next line.
		The use of a tetrameter line with a silent final beat is especially common in the second and fourth lines of a four-line tetrameter stanza, so that the eighth and sixteenth beats of the stanza as a whole are silent.
		Ternary rhythm, on the level of the line, in the form of iambic pentameter (or hexameter), tends to allow the content of the language to come to the foreground relative to the sound of the meter, so iambic pentameter is well suited to poetry in which the content is complex, demanding, and serious.
	www.amittai.com /prose/meter.php (754 words)

	Poetry Terms
		A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a.
		A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
		A sonnet (14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter) that divides into an octave (8) and sestet (6)
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl102/termquiz.htm (212 words)

	Structure of Tragedy
		Basic to the genre tragedy from its inception was the alternation of song and speech, sung lyric meters vs. spoken iambic trimeter (or trochaic tetrameter), chorus vs. actor(s).
		A rhesis is an extended speech in trimeters (or, rarely, tetrameters), often formally organized in its rhetoric.
		Both may be lyric voices (esp. in a kommos, a quasi-ritual lament: end of Persians), or one voice may be confined to iambic trimeter to provide a calmer counterpoint to the emotion expressed in the other voice's lyrics (as Soph.
	ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~pinax/Structure.html (1647 words)

	Poetry Terms
		A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a.
		A sonnet (14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter) that divides into an octave (8) and sestet (6)
		A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl102/termquiz.htm (212 words)

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