Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Verse written in lines of three metrical feet.
- noun A single line of such verse.
- noun Classical quantitative verse consisting of three measures of two feet each, especially in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter.
- noun A single line of such verse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In prosody, consisting of three measures, especially of three iambic measures.
- noun In prosody, a verse or period consisting of three measures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Pros.) Consisting of three poetical measures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
line in apoem havingthree metrical feet . - noun a
poetic metre in which eachline hasthree feet .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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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.
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Wordsworth experimented with an anapestic ballad stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter in the 1798
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This brief Nativity poem has just 40 words, divided into 8 lines of iambic trimeter.
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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.
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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.
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What can we say about this poem, besides the fact that it's in common meter alternating iambic tetrameter/iambic trimeter?
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What can we say about this poem, besides the fact that it's in common meter alternating iambic tetrameter/iambic trimeter?
"The Martyr's Hymn" 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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For example, suppose a poet wrote a lot of lines of iambic trimeter.
Does Mitch Albom Think He’s Jesus? « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006
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