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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Trimeter
		The material for the research comprises the iambic trimeter of Greek lyrics, tragedy and comedy, the archaic and Hellenistic choliambus, the early Roman senarius and the trimeter of late Roman tragedy.
		The metrical and rhythmical analysis focuses on the evolution of the ancient iambic trimeter from its earliest form – Greek lyric trimeters to the late Latin tragical trimeter.
		From the archaic Greek trimeter to the trimeter of the late Latin tragedy the rhythmical evolution of iambic trimeter demonstrates certain universal features which are especially characteristic to the verse of MS type (a metrical structure with the basic alphabet of two symbols, i.e.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trimeter (291 words)

	Meter in Children's Poetry
		Thus you may find tetrameter or trimeter, simply by counting stresses, but will not be able to determine the patterning described above.
		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.
		Note that the rhyme pattern follows the metrical pattern: the trimeter lines rhyme on the A word; the dimeter lines on the B word.
	www.richmond.edu /~egruner/english203/poetry.html (754 words)

	Greek meter metrics iambic trimeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rules you have already learned on syllabification and scansion apply equally for the iambic trimeter, and in fitting lines into this pattern (see next section, §6.2) you proceed as you did before.
		And although those 33 plays represent probably less than 1% of all Athenian tragedy written, most of their 44493 lines of Greek are iambic trimeters.
		The iambic trimeter (and tetrameter) also appears in slightly different forms in other types of ancient Greek verse, notably lyric poetry, but we shall take those up a later point.
	www.avalon.net /~laohu/Greek-Metrics/M_06-1_iambic-trimeter.html (446 words)

	Maria-Kristiina Lotman. Summary of doctoral thesis
		The material for the research comprises the iambic trimeter of Greek lyrics, tragedy and comedy, the archaic and Hellenistic choliambus, the early Roman senarius and the trimeter of late Roman tragedy.
		The metrical and rhythmical analysis focuses on the evolution of the ancient iambic trimeter from its earliest form – Greek lyric trimeters to the late Latin tragical trimeter.
		From the archaic Greek trimeter to the trimeter of the late Latin tragedy the rhythmical evolution of iambic trimeter demonstrates certain universal features which are especially characteristic to the verse of MS type (a metrical structure with the basic alphabet of two symbols, i.e.
	www.ut.ee /klassik/isikud/dok/lotman_eng.html (2956 words)

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		The Trimeter mounts to the wall while the wands are always immersed in your hydroponics reservoir for constant readouts.
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	www.4hydroponics.com /grow_room/trimeter.asp (139 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).
		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.
		A rhesis is an extended speech in trimeters (or, rarely, tetrameters), often formally organized in its rhetoric.
	ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~pinax/Structure.html (1647 words)

	Chapter 1
		It bears emphasis that khoros 'chorus' in Greek is a group that sings and dances, to the accompaniment of wind or string instruments, and that, in Greek traditions, the concept of song is fundamentally connected with the concept of the chorus.
		Thus the opposition of lyric meters and iambic trimeter in Athenian drama is that of song and poetry.
		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.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/chapter1.html (13922 words)

	Information on Metrics
		The meter of Catullus 52 is Iambic Trimeter.
		Like Iambic Senarius, Iambic Trimeter may use six iambs and have a long or short syllable in the last syllable of each line.
		Iambic Trimeter, however, allows the substitution of a spondee (long long) in the first and third iambs.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/catullus/metrics.htm (1585 words)

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		We begin in hypothetico-deductive mode, establishing a basic phrase structure grammar for the minimal verse, the trimeter.
		Finally, the predictions are confirmed in the scansion of the acrostic in Lamentations 3, a parade example of the so-called qinah meter.
		The Hebrew metron (M) is defined as two feet (F): M (F F. It is assumed that the bare minimum for the BH verse (V) is the trimeter, set forth in (1).
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~decaen/papers/trimeter.doc (457 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the case of trimeters, however, the correspondence between the Greek and Indic types is not obvious in all respects.
		If syllable 8 of trimeter is diachronically verse-final, we would expect reflexes of short quantity to be preserved by precisely this inherited mechanism, namely word-break immediately after 8.
		In the trimeter, the segment 1 2 3 4 5 has stricter metrical patterns than 1 2 3 4, and we have already seen that rhythmical constraints in the opening are a mark of relative lateness.
	www.stoa.org /hopper/xmlchunk.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0007:part=2:chapter=8 (3924 words)

	Poetry Analysis Essay
		The meter is iambic tetrameter in the odd lines and iambic trimeter in the even lines.
		In line one, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables change because the poet may be using the switching of the syllables to symbolize the ironic twist at the end of the poem.
		Line two is iambic trimeter, while line three is iambic tetrameter.
	faculty.leeu.edu /~alee/new_page_2.htm (1680 words)

	Latin Meter: Iambic
		There are a variety of Latin iambic verse meters, and one of the most common and most important for Latin poetry is the iambic senarius, or the 6-foot iamb, also called iambic trimeter.
		It just so happens, in fact, that the oldest surviving collection of Aesopic fables is found in the poetry of Phaedrus, written in iambic senarius (iambic trimeter).
		In this representation of the iambic senarius (iambic trimeter), the X represents the anceps, and the L a long element.
	tutor.bestlatin.net /about/meter_iambic.htm (859 words)

	The Mystery of the Missing Line:Spenser's Epithalamion stanza 15
		This stanza rhymes ABABCC (trimeter), DCDEFFEGG (trimeter) HH.
		The number of trimeters will not affect the count of the longer lines, which yield the needed 365.
		We notice length because fewer lines are trimeters than we expect, and a greater proportion of the stanza consists of long lines.
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol2no2/spenser.html (1221 words)

	Rhyme & Meter in Children's Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The number of beats (or accented syllables) per line determines the kind of meter; most nursery rhymes, for example, will be in tetrameter (four beats per line) or trimeter (three beats per line), or may alternate these two patterns.
		The other most common patterns are pentameter (five beats per line; especially common in English verse); hexameter (six beats per line); and, though it's rarer, dimeter (two beats per line).
		Note that the rhyme pattern follows the metricalpattern: the trimeter lines rhyme on the A word; the dimeter lines on the B word.
	www.richmond.edu /~egruner/english203/rhyme.html (386 words)

	SparkNotes: Keats's Odes: Ode to Psyche
		In the first stanza, every line is written in iambic pentameter except lines 12, 21, and 23 (the first two are trimeter, the last dimeter).
		The third stanza has trimeters in lines 10, 12, and 14; other than that, the stanza is written in iambic pentameter.
		The final stanza has trimeters in lines 16 and 18, and follows a relatively simple and natural rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EE FGFG HIHI.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/keats/section2.rhtml (1198 words)

	Iamb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iambic trimeter is the metre of the spoken verses in Greek tragedy and comedy.
		In English accentual-syllabic verse, iambic trimeter is a line comprising three iambs.
		Paterson wrote much of his poetry in iambic heptameter, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner also conforms to this stress pattern (although it is usually written as though it were composed of lines alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iamb (273 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Shipwreck
		You seem to be trying for what amounts to alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables or 4 and 3 stresses--that is, iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter (the fact that you've printed them out as lines of approximately 14 syllables doesn't change that).
		This line should be iambic trimeter (three iambs) but fails both in syllable-count and more importantly in stress-count.
		Again, this is supposed to be iambic trimeter, but because of the 4 stresses it's actually tetrameter.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/printthread.php?t=7637 (875 words)

	Scansion of Herrick's first quatrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elision on "flying" and "dying" to make one syllable, preserving the trimeter line called for by ballad form
		The poem is a ballad, built on quatrains with an abab rhyme that alternate tetrameter with trimeter lines.
		In class we talked about the interpretive choice between eliding "flying" and "dying" to preserve the regular trimeter line or reading lines 2 and 4 as having 7 syllables and there a "falling rhythm" on "flying" and "dying" that mimics the notion of dying and contrasts ironically with the optimistic notion of "flying."
	virtual.park.uga.edu /eng3k/materials/herrick2.htm (89 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)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Trimeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		feet is known as trimeter (pronounced with a short i in the first syllable — not "try-meter").
		Trimeter on its own is rare in English, although, when alternated with tetrameter, it makes
		Three question marks mean I have to write more on the subject.
	www.andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/trimeter.html (55 words)

	Amazon.com: "iambic trimeter": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Conversely it is argued that the meters known to us as the hexameter, the elegiac distich, and the iambic trimeter are the formal markers, in the Classical period, of poetry in this stricter sense, that is, of verse that is...
		in my reconstruction, the note reads as two lines of iambic trimeter (with a common trochaic inversion in the opening foot) and one of tetrameter.
		thus it was perhaps expected that "song" should sound differently from "speech" (remember that the episodes were in verse, but iambic trimeter, according to Aristotle, is the closest rhythm to normal speech).
	www.amazon.com /phrase/iambic-trimeter (367 words)

	Definition of trimeter - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?va=trimeters (56 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Trimeter
		feet is known as trimeter (pronounced with a short i in the first syllable — not "try-meter").
		Trimeter on its own is rare in English, although, when alternated with tetrameter, it makes
		Three question marks mean I have to write more on the subject.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/trimeter.html (55 words)

	Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, section 618 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Iambic Trimeter is the ordinary verse of dramatic dialogue.
		The Iambic Trimeter is often used in lyric poetry (1) as an independent system, or (2) alternating with the Dimeter to form the Iambic Strophe, as follows: -
		In the stricter form of Iambic Trimeter an irrational spondee (> -) or its equivalent (a cyclic anapaest - or an apparent dactyl > §; 609.
	www.hhhh.org /perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/allgre.618.html (283 words)

	Romantic Audience Project :: varied
		This harmonious, metric variation is most prevalent in the first and second parts of the poem, as each line alternates between tetrameter (4 beats) and trimeter (3 beats).
		Although one may be inclined to believe that such a variation would create an unsymmetrical and chaotic sound, this pattern actually produces a unique rhythm and dramatic tension throughout the poem.
		The second line, however, is in the trimeter structure and appears to swiftly and succinctly follow the slightly longer, preceding line.
	ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668 /comments/varied (478 words)

	Aoidoi: Haiku in Classical Greek
		My first thought, after the surprise at seeing such a book, was "why not do this in classical Greek?" Syllable counting is easier than constructing the iambic trimeter used in Greek verse composition texts, writing anything novel in Greek is likely to improve your vocabulary.
		Or, say we take a single iambic trimeter line for lines 1 and 2, with a 5+7 caesura, and allow the various contractions, resolutions and substitutions that Attic drama allows within that verse, tribrachs (uuu) and anapests (uu-) and so on.
		We could follow Pindar and the choral poets and allow single anceps syllables to be long, short, or a resolved long, two short syllables.
	www.aoidoi.org /articles/ktl/haiku (1786 words)

	Gregory Nagy, page 286 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The comparative evidence of the cognate Greek trimeters suggests the opposite, and the GAthic evidence adduced by Oldenberg
		for which there is a direct analogue in the dodecasyllables of Greek iambic trimeter.
		also, traces in the synchronic catalexis of syllable 8 in dimeter and of syllable 12 in trimeter forward dovetailing operative; also, traces in the caesura pattern...5
	www.stoa.org /hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0007:page=286 (222 words)

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