dimeter

[ dim-i-ter ]

noun

, Prosody.

1. a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.

dimeter

/ ˈdɪmɪtə /

noun

1. prosody a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet or a verse written in this metre

Word History and Origins

Origin of dimeter¹

1580–90; < Late Latin dimeter < Greek dímetros of two measures, a dimeter, equivalent to di- di- ¹ + -metros, adj. derivative of métron meter ¹

Example Sentences

The hind-men responded with a sing-song trochaic dimeter which sounded like a long-drawn-out monosyllable.

From Project Gutenberg

There are in both three series of iambuses—the dimeter, the cataleptic trimeter, and the acataleptic.

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Their rhyme, if not quite pure, is abundant and catching, and their nearest metrical affinity would be a trochaic dimeter.

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He wrote two famous hymns, one of them in the popular trochaic tetrameter, the other in the equally simple iambic dimeter.

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This verse is therefore the almost exact equivalent of the Greek iambic dimeter.

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