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In poetry, a trimeter (Greek for "three measure") is a metre of three metrical feet per line.[1] Examples:
When here // the spring // we see,
Fresh green // upon // the tree.
^Greene, Roland; Cushman, Stephen; Cavanagh, Clare; Ramazani, Jahan; Rouzer, Paul; Feinsod, Harris; Marno, David; Slessarev, Alexandra (2012-08-26). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press. p. 1459. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
Look up trimeter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In poetry, a trimeter (Greek for "three measure") is a metre of three metrical feet per line. Examples:...
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employed by Ovid for all his extant works except the Metamorphoses Iambic trimeter, the most common meter in the dialogue portions of tragedy and comedy (also...
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rhyme scheme. The rhyme is organized by its meter, a sprung rhythm in trimeter. Accentual verse (including sprung rhythm) is a common form in English...
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considered iambic in genre, even though they were not composed in iambic trimeter, by ancient sources. Though the word "élite" is used as a shorthand for...
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