What is another word for tetrameter?

Pronunciation: [tˈɛtɹɐmˌiːtə] (IPA)

Tetrameter refers to a poetic verse containing four metrical feet. It is commonly used in classical poetry and ballads. Some synonyms for tetrameter include quadrimeter, tetrapody, and tetrasyllable. Quadrimeter follows a similar naming convention to tetrameter, but instead of referring to feet, it refers to four poetic lines. Tetrapody is a more general term, describing any verse with four feet. Tetrasyllable is based on the number of syllables in the verse, with each foot consisting of four syllables. All of these synonyms can help to add variety and interest to a poet's work, allowing them to experiment with different meters and rhythms.

Synonyms for Tetrameter:

What are the hypernyms for Tetrameter?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    meter, poetic meter, metric foot, Quadrisyllabic Foot, poetic foot.

What are the hyponyms for Tetrameter?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Tetrameter

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

Related words: meter, meter definition, tetrameter definition, meter example, verse, poetry, poem

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