But in a large number of the fragments of the dialogue, where there is any excitement of feeling or intensity of thought, we find him using the more rapid trochaic septenarian, with quick transitions to the anapaestic dimeter, or tetrameter, as the passion passes beyond the control of the speaker.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In its highest order, the lyric or "ode," it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics.
"The Unknown Eros"
Coventry Patmore
And being, as Plato would have, the scholar-like and philosophical temper, eager for every kind of learning, and indisposed to no description of knowledge or instruction, he showed, however, a more peculiar propensity to poetry; and there is a poem now extant, made by him when a boy, in tetrameter verse, called Pontius Glaucus.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh