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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tetrameter
		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.
		Just as the four beats of tetrameter may be conceived as two times two, the six beats of pentameter may be conceived as three beats, each of which is subdivided into two beats, with offbeat syllables between the beats, and the final beat silent.
		Tetrameter is the underdog to pentameter (and, for about the last 100 years, free verse) but its charms are worth exploring.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tetrameter (333 words)

	Tetrameter: Four-Footed Verse
		An extra or missing syllable may be tolerated, and an occasional reversal of the ta TUM pattern (to TA tum) is common, even desirable as a way to avoid monotony.
		Like any other meter, tetrameter can be rhymed or unrhymed.
		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.
	www.tetrameter.com (381 words)

	Amittai F. Aviram : Meter in English Verse
		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.
		Just as the four beats of tetrameter may be conceived as two times two, the six beats of pentameter may be conceived as three beats, each of which is subdivided into two beats, with offbeat syllables between the beats, and the final beat silent.
		If the tetrameter allows some lines that are not truly iambic — that is, they begin on the beat rather than the offbeat and therefore contain one less syllable than the norm — then there is no momentary triple effect in going from one line to the next.
	www.amittai.com /prose/meter.php (10722 words)

	Iambic tetrameter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word "tetrameter" simply means that there are four feet in the line; iambic tetrameter is a line comprising four iambs.
		The term originally applied to the quantitative meter of Classical Greek poetry, in which an iamb consisted of a short syllable followed by a long syllable.
		A line of iambic tetrameter is four of such feet in a row:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iambic_tetrameter (158 words)

	Hymn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		H.M. - Hallelujah Meter; a six-line stanza of which the first four lines are trimeter and the last two are tetrameter, which rhymes most often in the second and fourth lines and the fifth and sixth lines (6/6/6/6/8/8).
		L.M. - Long Meter; a quatrain in iambic tetrameter, which rhymes in the second and fourth lines and often in the first and third (8/8/8/8).
		S.M. - Short Meter; iambic lines in the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter, which rhymes in the second and fourth lines and sometimes in the first and third (6/6/8/6).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hymn (1737 words)

	Definition of tetrameter - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	tetrameter.html (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The following stanza is written entirely in tetrameter:
		Tetrameter was used widely in the writing of plays in England before writers like Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare made iambic pentameter the standard meter for plays.
		Tetrameter tends to trot along, although in the hands of a good poet like Andrew Marvell, it can be exciting:
	www.stedwards.edu /hum/klawitter/poetics/tetrameter.html (102 words)

	Dr. Seusss Meters - Dr. Seuss
		Abstractly, anapestic tetrameter consists of four rhythmic units (anapests), each composed of two weak beats followed by one strong, schematized below: x x X x x X x x X x x X Often, the first weak syllable is omitted, or an additional weak syllable is added at the end.
		The consistency of his meter was one of his hallmarks, the many imitators and parodists of Seuss are often unable to write in strict anapestic tetrameter, or unaware that they should, and thus sound clumsy in comparison with the original.
		Seuss also wrote verse in trochaic tetrameter, an arrangement of four units each with a strong followed by a weak beat: X x X x X x X x An example is the title (and first line) of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Academia5271/dr-seuss-dr-seusss-meters.html (340 words)

	Philologica 3 (1996): Shapir. At the Dawn of the Russian Iambic Tetrameter (Summary)
		The chosen subject is difficult to define except as “vulgarly sociological”: the intention is to demonstrate that the palace revolution which led to Elizabeth Petrovna ascending the throne, directly influ enced the rhythmic structure of Russian syllabic-accentual versi fication.
		Thus, fully stressed lines in Lomonosov’s iambic tetrameters of his early period accounted for approximately 95% to 97%, while lines containing two pyrrhics were categorically avoided.
		The influence of Lomonosov on the metric and rhythmic repertoire of Russian poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is difficult to overestimate.
	www.rvb.ru /philologica/03eng/03eng_shapir.htm (2333 words)

	Tetrameter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		feet is known as tetrameter (Greek tetra, "four").
		Tetrameter is second in popularity only to pentameter in English.
		Alternating lines of tetrameter and trimeter make up ballad stanza.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~jlynch/Terms/Temp/tetrameter.html (28 words)

	Preschool Dr. Seuss Fast Facts
		Seuss wrote most of his books in a verse form that in the terminology of metrics would be characterized as anapestic tetrameter, a meter employed also by Byron and other poets of the English literary canon.
		The consistency of his meter was one of his hallmarks; the many imitators and parodists of Seuss are often unable to write in strict anapestic tetrameter, or unaware that they should, and thus sound clumsy in comparison with the original.
		Thus, for instance, Happy Birthday to You is generally written in anapestic tetrameter, but breaks into iambo-trochaic meter for the "Dr. Derring's singing herrings" and "Who-Bubs" episodes.
	www.everythingpreschool.com /themes/drseuss/encyclopedia2.php (464 words)

	Adventures in Poetry, November 1998
		Iambic tetrameter is, as I have said (sniff) many times before and in many places, the ameter without which the immortal line "they're coming to take me away, ha, ha!" could never have been uttered.
		For example, iambic tetrameter is NOT a pooty ameter, like that iambic PENT-ameter is, and this endears it to me, as it should to all right-thinking and right-feeling Americans.
		But iambic tetrameter will always be there for you, waiting patiently and forgivingly while you come slinking home with that anapestic lipstick on your collar, those lacy crotchless silky anapestic panties tucked just inside your left front pants' pocket, and that anapestic vibrator left carelessly on, wasting batteries, causing that peculiar walk of yours.
	anitra.net /homelessness/columns/wes/9811.html (555 words)

	Featured essay: "Are You All Talk and No Trochaic Tetrameter?" by Rod Miller Cowboy Poetry ...
		In his essay below, "Are You All Talk and No Trochaic Tetrameter?," Rod Miller addresses the "elephant in the cowboy poetry living room": Meter.
		Strictly speaking, the ballad form consists of four-line stanzas, the first and third lines being unrhymed iambic tetrameter; the second and fourth lines iambic trimeter with end rhymes.
		CowboyPoetry.com is a project of the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, Inc., a Federal and California tax-exempt non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.
	www.cowboypoetry.com /meter.htm (2325 words)

	Marvell's Use of Sound in "To His Coy Mistress"
		In general, the meter of the poem is iambic tetrameter, a light, lyrical rhythm suitable for love poetry.
		The third line contains no pauses and runs on into the fourth, where there is a pause after the first foot, so that the rhythm (a long, twelve syllable line, followed by a short eight syllable line) runs counter to the rhythm of the couplet (two lines of ten syllables each).
		The irregularity of the rest of the poem’s rhythm depicts the natural, unsystematic nature of spontaneous thought (appropriate for a speaker who lives in the moment).
	www.gpc.edu /~shale/humanities/composition/handouts/marvell.html (915 words)

	Review: Jo Walton and the Blood of Kings
		Each of these poems is written in trochaic tetrameter, the same meter as Hiawatha, and a measure whose effect is incantatory, a rhythm that forces itself upon the ear.
		It is written in iambic tetrameter without rhyme (sometimes trending toward accentual rather than strict iambic patterns), a rhythm which goes very well with the mounting tension as Sophoniba decides her fate:
		It is extremely easy to revert to a simple iambic tetrameter, on the one hand, with eight syllables, or on the other hand, to create lines with only three clearly accented syllables.
	alliteration.net /Walton.htm (2222 words)

	-POETRY POINTERS - THE FORMS OF POETRY -
		The most common line-length used is pentameter, although the slightly shorter tetrameter is a close second-- and the latter is also the length of many of the simplest, sweetest poems you first learned.
		The combinations of iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter are the most common poetic lines of all-- since they are the poetic utterances closest to most human speech.
		villanelle is a poem of nineteen lines, five three-line stanzas followed by one four- line stanza, usually in lines of either all tetrameter (4 beats) or all pentameter (5 beats), with alternating end-rhymes patterned aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa, and with one other, vital twist.
	www.members.aol.com /lucyhardng/pointers/form.htm (2236 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - The Saw (Rev.1)
		Tetrameter, she says, has “a sense of quickness, spareness, even a little agitation, which is not evoked in the five foot lines.” And the way I read this piece, I can really tell you’re using tetrameter.
		Tetrameter is often used for light verse because of the “quickness” of the line.
		I reorganized the poem to go tetrameter/ trimeter like Andrea had mentioned and I like the sound of it more, but it was obviously too long.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?t=10129 (1427 words)

	INTRA - Interactive Tutorial on Rhythm Analysis
		The ballad stanza consists of a quatrain of alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter lines, usually with rhyme of the second and fourth lines.
		Common meter is used for many hymns, ballads and nursery rhymes and consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter lines.
		The types of line lengths are numerically named: monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter or alexandrine, heptameter, octometer (Attridge, REP 6).
	academic.reed.edu /english/intra/glossary.html (1186 words)

	Romantic Audience Project 2 :: Meter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This example is an iambic tetrameter - i.e.
		This line is an example of dactyllic tetrameter i.e.
		The number of feet in a line is usually classified as follows: monometer (one foot), dimeter (two feet), trimeter (three feet), tetrameter (four feet), pentameter (five feet), hexameter (six feet), heptameter (seven feet) and octameter (eight feet).
	ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780 /snipsnap/eng242-s05/space/Meter (169 words)

	-POETRY POINTERS - THE FORMS OF POETRY -
		The most common line-length used is pentameter, although the slightly shorter tetrameter is a close second-- and the latter is also the length of many of the simplest, sweetest poems you first learned.
		The combinations of iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter are the most common poetic lines of all-- since they are the poetic utterances closest to most human speech.
		villanelle is a poem of nineteen lines, five three-line stanzas followed by one four- line stanza, usually in lines of either all tetrameter (4 beats) or all pentameter (5 beats), with alternating end-rhymes patterned aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa, and with one other, vital twist.
	members.aol.com /lucyhardng/pointers/form.htm (2236 words)

	Tetrameter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The particular foot, of course, can vary, as follows:
		Tetrameter.com A website devoted to verse in tetrameter
		This page was last modified 22:56, 6 September 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tetrameter (105 words)

	Form
		The meter is tetrameter, with a rhyming pattern abaab
		A Late Walk is a ballad-style lyric (tetrameter alternating with trimeter) rhyming the 2nd and 4th lines in quatrains.
		Ballads 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.
	www.frostfriends.org /form.html (1313 words)

	Metrical Issues - Literature Network Forums
		Tetrameter has ALWAYS made more sense to me. I'm guessing that this is b/c I'm a child of 80s electronica, Nirvana and gangsta rap (not in the "raised in the hood" sense; more in suburban white boy wannabe, "this $hit is fly, mom!" sense.
		That would be a silly argument indeed, and I have also experienced great pleasure in hearing tetrameter, hexameter, and any number of other poetic lines both measured and free.
		I would imagine that someone unfamiliar with iambic pentameter or tetrameter might still react favorably to the role the meter plays in a poem, even if he/she had not been steeped in such rhythms from a young age.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?p=164396 (4424 words)

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		This example, which alternates between tetrameter and trimeter lines, is a ballad stanza.
		Songs and lyric (song-like) poetry are sometimes written entirely in trimeter, but this line length probably appears most frequently as the short lines in ballads.
		Songs and lyric poetry are often written in tetrameter, and narrative poetry often is, as well.
	english.utb.edu /Dameron/courses/comp2/04-16-03_files/displaypage.html (507 words)

	Perplexed Proverbs
		A note for would-be poets who may be put off by phrases such as "iambic tetrameter" and "versification will be scrutinised".
		IAMBIC TETRAMETER is a heavy-sounding label for something that kids achieve painlessly as soon as they can recite lines like "The boy stood on the burning deck" or "Mary had a little lamb".
		A tetrameter is simply a line of verse that has four measures or "beats".
	homepages.which.net /~david.ash/perplex.htm (494 words)

	SparkNotes: Coleridge's Poetry: "Kubla Khan"
		The chant-like, musical incantations of "Kubla Khan" result from Coleridge's masterful use of iambic tetrameter and alternating rhyme schemes.
		The first stanza is written in tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAABCCDEDE, alternating between staggered rhymes and couplets.
		The fourth stanza continues the tetrameter of the third and rhymes ABCCBDEDEFGFFFGHHG.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/coleridge/section5.rhtml (784 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Tetrameter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		feet is known as tetrameter (Greek tetra, "four").
		Tetrameter is second in popularity only to pentameter in English.
		Three question marks mean I have to write more on the subject.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/tetrameter.html (41 words)

	tetrameter - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Tetrameter : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include tetrameter: dactylic tetrameter, iambic tetrameter
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