trimeter

Examples

• All

• Many poems employ trimeter to create a rhythm that enhances the emotional impact of the words.

• Williams follows with an example of a stanza pattern that "probably represents the most popular ballad form," a quatrain with alternating trimeter and tetrameter lines rhyming xaxa.

  Academic text (2010)

• "For I have had too much," he says in stilted iambic trimeter, "of apple-picking: I am overtired."

  Academic text (2008)

• If you listen carefully, Best Beloved, and pay very close attention, you will note that what you're hearing is two lines of anapestic tetrameter with a trimeter line to close.

  Academic text (2003)

• "Quod Tegit Omnia" seems to be playing against some sort of trimeter, while "The Bitter Moon" suggests the possibility of a trisyllabic dimeter.

  Fiction book (2000)

• One can easily make of the first line of "Quod Tegit Omnia" an iambic trimeter, with substitutions and a hypermetric syllable or feminine ending:

  Fiction book (2000)

• As in this poem, each of Blues for Bird's 5,665 lines is cast in iambic trimeter, a meter that Gray explained in an article about the poem as his attempt to reflect jazz rhythms, especially the beat and offbeat movement within bop.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Patterns of alliteration in the poem's second and penultimate lines that are from the point of view of the poem's meter (iambic trimeter) are identical, occurring on the strong metrical positions in each case:

  Academic text (2006)

• In this sonnet, each line is crafted in trimeter to maintain a consistent poetic flow.

• The poet chose trimeter for its musicality, giving the verses a lively and engaging beat.

Compounds

I

iambic trimeter

• Literature

9.9

A line of poetry with three pairs of syllables that go weak then strong

P

pure iambic trimeter

• Literature

9.9

A line of poetry with six short-long beats and no rhythm changes allowed

How Many Feet

octameter

• Literature

9.9

hexameter

• Literature

1 9.6

pentameter

• Literature

7 8.2

tetrameter

• Literature

1 9.3

trimeter

• Literature

8.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology