Tetrameter

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In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot, of course, can vary, as follows:

• Anapestic tetrameter:
• "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" (Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib")
• Iambic tetrameter:
• "Because I could not stop for Death" (Emily Dickinson)
• Trochaic tetrameter:
• "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (English nursery rhyme)
• Dactylic tetrameter:
• Picture your self in a boat on a river with [...] (The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"),

External links

• Tetrameter.com A website devoted to verse in tetrameter

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