Tetrameter

Tetrameter, in poetry, means a line or lines of verse (poetry) of four metrical feet:

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Tetrameter, in poetry, means a line or lines of verse consisting of four metrical feet.

Iambic tetrameter:


 * Come live with me and be my Love,
 * And we shall all life's pleasures prove
 * (Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love")

Scanned:
 * Come LIVE / with ME / and BE / my LOVE.
 * And WE / shall ALL / life's plEA/sures pROVE

Trochaic tetrameter:


 * Double, double, toil and trouble,
 * Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
 * (William Shakespeare, Macbeth).


 * DOUBle, // DOUBle, / TOIL and / TROUBle
 * FI-re / BURN and / CAULdron / BUBble.

Anapestic tetrameter:


 * It occurred to him now to be resolute and bold


 * 'It ocCURED / to him NOW / to be RES/olute and BOLD.'

Number of feet per line

 * Monometer - one
 * Dimeter - two
 * Trimeter - three
 * Tetrameter - four
 * Pentameter - five
 * Hexameter - six
 * Heptameter - seven