Tetrameter

The poem is written mostly in tetrameter, which is common enough. ❋ Joshenglish (2007)

A sudden hexameter will burst forth from a poem written in tetrameter, for instance, or a line will turn up that is difficult to scan at all. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The metre is the trochaic tetrameter, which is always well suited to the Latin language, and which here appears treated with Greek strictness, except that in lines 55, 62, 91, a spondee is used in the fifth foot instead of a trochee. ❋ Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)

I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. [ ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)

| fishing or surveying; 'tetrameter' is confusing because of | ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

“Rainforest” consists of 12 lines of iambic tetrameter that celebrate the interdependence of the creatures in natural world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed. ❋ John J. Miller (2012)

In your graduate studies, did you find out why most of her poetry was written in iambic tetrameter? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both "Poor Susan" and "The Power of Music" are written in the ballad stanza of iambic-anapestic tetrameter, a showy meter associated with comic ballads that Wordsworth generally reserved for his lighter compositions and, in the case of these two poems, his treatment of urban themes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wordsworth experimented with an anapestic ballad stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter in the 1798 ❋ Unknown (2008)

Written in iambic tetrameter, it is better known today by the title “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some minor edits and it could be read in iambic tetrameter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Somewhere along the way, I ‘translated’ the poem into tetrameter some of which is mighty loose and that process strangely opened the poem, which seemed the right thing to do. ❋ Amy Gerstler (2010)

This modified ballad stanza returns as the first half of the 8-line stanza of "The Solitary Reaper," where it is followed by two tetrameter couplets. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The Power of Music" is written in a form not always recognized as such: the anapestic or iambic-anapestic tetrameter found in eighteenth-century amorous and comedic ballads by, among others, Matthew Prior, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first of Shelley's initial iambic tetrameter lines, descriptive of what the poem will later call the "day" (48), had built its perfectly cadenced syntax with geometric logic — two clauses per line, then one clause for a line, then one clause for two lines: ❋ Unknown (2008)