tetrameter

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

tĕtrămĕtĕr, trī, m. (τετράμετρος), tétramètre, qui a quatre mètres [métrique] : Diom. 519, 29.

Latin > German (Georges)

tetrameter, trī, m. (τετράμετρος), der Tetrameter, Viertakter in der Metrik (s. tetrametrus), Diom. 506, 28.

Latin > English

tetrameter tetrametri N M :: tetrameter; four metric feet

Wikipedia EN

In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four feet. The particular foot can vary, as follows:

• anapestic tetrameter:
  • "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" (Lord Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib")
  • "Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house" ("A Visit from St. Nicholas")
• iambic tetrameter:
  • "Because I could not stop for Death" (Emily Dickinson, eponymous Because I could not stop for Death)
• trochaic tetrameter:
  • "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater)
• dactylic tetrameter:
  • Picture your self in a boat on a river with [...] (The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds")
• spondaic tetrameter:
  • Long sounds move slow
• Pyrrhic tetrameter (with spondees ["white breast" and "dim sea"]):
  • And the white breast of the dim sea
• amphibracic tetrameter:
  • And, speaking of birds, there's the Russian Palooski, / Whose headski is redski and belly is blueski. (Dr. Seuss)