"Dimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Verse.—A single line of poetry is called a verse. A stanza is composed of several verses. When a verse consists of one foot, it is called a monometer; of two feet, a dimeter; of three feet, a trimeter; of four feet, a tetrameter; of five feet, a pentameter; and of ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... its laws as truly as any other. In its highest order, the lyric or "ode," it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics. When it descends to narrative, or the expression of a less-exalted strain of thought, it becomes a trimeter, having the time of six iambics, or even a dimeter, with the time of four; and it is allowable to vary the tetrameter "ode" by the occasional introduction of passages in either or both of these inferior measures, but not, I think, by the use of any other. ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore
... is called dimeter. It also is uncommon; but it does sometimes make up a whole poem; as, "The Bridge of Sighs," ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster |
