Entertainment / Literature / Dimeter: A line containing only two metrical feet. See meter and foot.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Adonic: A classical greek and latin metre, a dimeter with a dactyl and a spondee / ~ ' ' / ' ' / such as are found at the close of sapphics. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Scansion: The act of 'scanning' a poem to determine its meter. To perform scansion, the student breaks down each line into individual metrical feet and determines which syllables have heavy stress and which hav MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Burns Stanza Or Meter: Six-line stanza with the rhyme scheme aaabab (where a is a tetrameter line, and b is a dimeter line). MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Limerick: A five-line closed-form poem in which the first two lines consist of anapestic trimeter, which in turn are followed by lines of anapestic dimeter, and a final line in trimeter. They rhyme in an AABBA MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Double Dactyl: A comic verse written with two quatrains, with each line written in dactylic dimeter. The second line may be a name, and the sixth or seventh line may be a single word. J. A. Cuddon's poem, 'Nicholas MORE