trimeter
a verse of three measures or feet.
consisting of three measures or feet.
Classical Prosody. composed of six feet or three dipodies.
Origin of trimeter
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How to use trimeter in a sentence
A stanza made up of tetrameter alternating with trimeter is very common.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThe heptameter is usually divided into a tetrameter and a trimeter; the octameter, into two tetrameters.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThe metres employed by Epicharmus were iambic trimeter, and especially trochaic and anapaestic tetrameter.
The common-meter stanza contains four iambic lines, the first and third being tetrameter, and the second and fourth trimeter.
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism | F. V. N. PainterThere are in both three series of iambuses—the dimeter, the cataleptic trimeter, and the acataleptic.
Myth and Science | Tito Vignoli
British Dictionary definitions for trimeter
/ (ˈtrɪmɪtə) prosody /
a verse line consisting of three metrical feet
designating such a line
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