Trimeter

Entertainment / Literature / Trimeter: A line consisting of three metrical feet. This short line is most common in English nursery rhymes, lullabies, and children's songs. We do find examples of it in poems like the opening lines of William Blake's 'The Lamb': Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
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Iambic Trimeter

Lifestyle / Poetry / Iambic Trimeter: A classical greek and latin metre with three iambic feet (also known in english as the alexandrine). MORE

Pythiambic

Lifestyle / Poetry / Pythiambic: A classical greek and latin metrical form, dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter couplets. 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

Lullaby

Entertainment / Literature / Lullaby: A song written for children, especially a calming one designed to help an infant go to sleep. The genre is often marked by trimeter or duple meter in its metrical line, repetition, soothing euphony, a 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

Limerick

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