Tetrameter

Entertainment / Literature / Tetrameter: A line consisting of four metrical feet. See discussion under meter.
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Burns Stanza Or Meter

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

In Memoriam Stanza

Lifestyle / Poetry / In Memoriam Stanza: Quatrain with the rhyme scheme abba (sometimes termed an envelope), written in iambic tetrameter, and named after alfred lord tennyson's poem of the same name. MORE

Hudibrastic Poetry

Lifestyle / Poetry / Hudibrastic Poetry: Iambic tetrameter couplets like those in samuel butler's hudibras. MORE

Ballad

Entertainment / Literature / Ballad: In common parlance, song hits, folk music, and folktales or any song that tells a story are loosely called ballads. In more exact literary terminology, a ballad is a narrative poem consisting of quatr MORE

Eupolidian

Entertainment / Literature / Eupolidian: (Grk., 'well varied') In classical literature, any varied metrical form such as a tetrameter with mixed choriambic and trochaic feet (Cuddon 314). MORE

Common Measure

Entertainment / Literature / Common Measure: Also called common meter, common measure consists of closed poetic quatrains rhyming ABAB or ABCB, in which the lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) alternate with lines of iambic trimeter (si MORE