Trimeter

The statement, "A trimeter is a verse of three measures," is a definition because it gives, first, the larger class (verse) to which the trimeters belong, and secondly, the difference (of three measures) which distinguishes the trimeter from all other verses. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

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

It's in a beat called iambic trimeter: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM, which keeps it light-hearted, but generally when Kunitz uses the word "God" he does so in what's called a spondee, with two strong syllables in succession. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This brief Nativity poem has just 40 words, divided into 8 lines of iambic trimeter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before, I had noted in passing that I wasn't seeing much metrical verse when I looked for cards, but this was the first time I specifically set out to find a card with something resembling ABAB and trochaic trimeter, or whatever. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What can we say about this poem, besides the fact that it's in common meter alternating iambic tetrameter/iambic trimeter? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Refined to lines of trimeter, he tried to pose the sonnet he desired to be a subtle way to move young poets he described as cattle in a field of flies. ❋ Ivan Donn Carswell (2008)

Laertius 'statement (A1) that Xenophanes “wrote in epic meter, also elegiacs, and iambics” is confirmed by extant poems in hexameters and elegiac meter, with one couplet (B14) a combination of hexameter and iambic trimeter. ❋ Lesher, James (2008)

For example, suppose a poet wrote a lot of lines of iambic trimeter. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Like “The Crocodile,” most poems in “Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant” use the ballad stanzas known as common meter or “hymn” stanzas, or alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter with rhyming first and third lines. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Pythian prophetess, as the men of Cnidos themselves report, gave them this reply in trimeter verse: — “Fence not the place with towers, nor dig the isthmus through; Zeus would have made your land an island, had he willed.” ❋ Herodotus (2003)

Candaules was sleeping, Gyges came privily up to him15 and slew him, and he obtained both his wife and his kingdom: of him moreover Archilochos the Parian, who lived about that time, made mention in a trimeter iambic verse. 16 13. ❋ Herodotus (2003)

These lines are emphatically set off from what follows by their versification: after a tetrameter couplet, a trimeter line introduces an envelope quatrain that ends in another trimeter line. ❋ Unknown (2000)

It's not about that I ask you, but which, according to you, is the best measure, the trimeter or the tetrameter? ❋ Unknown (2000)

The metric scansion is correct and consistent-basically iambic tetrameter alter - nating with iambic trimeter with certain convenient modifi - cations in the extreme feet. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1982)