Definitionn. a verse line having four metrical feet
Last update: June 17, 2015
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Most of the satires of Lucilius were written in hexameters, but, so far as an opinion can be formed from a number of unconnected fragments, he seems to have written the trochaic tetrameter with a smoothness, clearness and simplicity which he never attained in handling the hexameter. [Please select]
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Acatalectic tetrameter of iambs marching. [Please select]
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_Hiawatha_ and _Evangeline_ are not rhymed, the former being trochaic tetrameter and the latter largely dactylic hexameter. [Please select]
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Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet. [Please select]
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