tetrameter

noun

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as in hexameter

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  1. hexameter
  2. trimeter
  3. pentameter
  4. movement
Noun
  • Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
    — William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Definition of hexameter
Noun
  • Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss.
    — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024
Definition of trimeter
Noun
  • The majority of Senese-Grossberg’s script has the actors speaking in contemporary language, though there are performance sequences spoken in the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • But with Shakespeare, whose characters felt so familiar inside rules of prose and iambic pentameter, Ming-Trent found a poetry partner to hep him through life’s brutalities.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of pentameter
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  • An emphasis on wellness means not only pampering spa treatments but advanced health tech, movement, and meditation sessions over an entire floor.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • Sinlaku’s slow movement (in contrast to Bavi) worsened impacts by keeping destructive winds and torrential rain over the islands for hours, rather than moving through quickly.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of movement
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