The poem is written mostly in tetrameter, which is common enough. From Wordnik.com. [Poem a day] Reference
I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. From Wordnik.com. [The Clouds] Reference
He was working in something we would call anapestic tetrameter, which is also the rhythm of “Twas the night before Christmas.”. From Wordnik.com. [Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)] Reference
This work was written in tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [THE ROAD LEADS FURTHER] Reference
| fishing or surveying; 'tetrameter' is confusing because of |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
I wish I had a little food-iambic tetrameter, four beats. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
Some minor edits and it could be read in iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Transmitting History] Reference
Make a wager then with me, if the semisextarius be not a tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
Pentameter, tetrameter just flew from pens in random flight as if arranged. From Wordnik.com. [You Eat Bovine] Reference
TOURE: It doesn't have to tetrameter, Shakespearean, just make it interesting. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2004] Reference
Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
In your graduate studies, did you find out why most of her poetry was written in iambic tetrameter?. From Wordnik.com. [vivace - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I do not ask you this, but which you account the most beautiful measure; the trimetre or the tetrameter?. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
When he awoke, he wrote what he could remember down in iambic tetrameter (it's just what those guys did). From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: The Real Appeal of Amy Winehouse] Reference
Wordsworth experimented with an anapestic ballad stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter in the 1798. From Wordnik.com. [Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music] Reference
They contain an ingenious quality and demonstrate poetic range, with some even written in iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [A Most Prolific Peasant Poet] Reference
"The Golden Gate," about four young California professionals, is composed of 690 rhyming tetrameter sonnets. From Wordnik.com. [Hitchhiking Across China] Reference
Written in iambic tetrameter, it is better known today by the title “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”. From Wordnik.com. [2008 December 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Puck is fond of trochaic tetrameter in couplets, that is, four-beat verse starling off on a stressed syllable. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
It's not about that I ask you, but which, according to you, is the best measure, the trimeter or the tetrameter?. From Wordnik.com. [The Clouds] Reference
Anthropomorphic feline wages psychological warfare against a sentient goldfish, all related in anapestic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [ToAmazonDaily] Reference
The trochee is too much akin to wild dancing: we can see this in tetrameter verse, which is one of the trochaic rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
What can we say about this poem, besides the fact that it's in common meter alternating iambic tetrameter/iambic trimeter?. From Wordnik.com. ["The Martyr's Hymn"] Reference
Personally, I think it's very admirable that spammers are now striking in iambic pentameter, trochaic tetrameter, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Friday Fun: This spam is ham] Reference
“Rainforest” consists of 12 lines of iambic tetrameter that celebrate the interdependence of the creatures in natural world. From Wordnik.com. [Children’s Poems About Rainforests and Their Creatures « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Most of the experiments were performed with iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
The fundamental measure is iambic tetrameter, as in the line. From Wordnik.com. [Poets of the South] Reference
For the tetrameter there is some indication in the cases of B. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in regards to trochaic tetrameter of. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstatic Days] Reference
Rhymes under prescribed accentual conditions: iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
A stanza made up of tetrameter alternating with trimeter is very common. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
There are four feet in each verse; so the poem is written in iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
In the same way, one decides that "The Song of Hiawatha" is written in trochaic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
A form which may fit the pentameter can be broken off early, and become a satisfactory tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
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