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==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 '''Christ'''mas when '''all''' through the '''house'''" ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") | |||
* ''[[iambic]] [[tetrameter]]:'' | |||
** "Be'''cause''' I '''could''' not '''stop''' for '''Death'''" (Emily Dickinson, [[eponymous]] Because I could not stop for Death) | |||
* ''[[trochaic]] [[tetrameter]]:'' | |||
** "'''Pet'''er, '''Pet'''er, '''pump'''kin-'''eat'''er" (Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater) | |||
* ''[[dactylic]] [[tetrameter]]:'' | |||
** '''Pic'''ture your '''self''' in a '''boat''' on a '''riv'''er with [...] (The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds") | |||
* ''[[spondaic]] tetrameter'': | |||
** '''Long sounds move slow''' | |||
* ''[[Pyrrhic]] [[tetrameter]]'' (with [[spondee]]s ["white breast" and "dim sea"]): | |||
** And the '''white breast''' of the '''dim sea''' | |||
* ''[[amphibracic]] [[tetrameter]]'': | |||
** And, '''speak'''ing of '''birds''', there's the '''Russ'''ian Pa'''loo'''ski, / Whose '''head'''ski is '''red'''ski and '''bel'''ly is '''blue'''ski. (Dr. Seuss) | |||
