Tetrameter
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot can vary, as follows:
- Anapestic tetrameter:
- * "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea"
- * "Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house"
- Iambic tetrameter:
- * "Because I could not stop for Death"
- Trochaic tetrameter:
- * "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater"
- Dactylic tetrameter:
- * Picture your self in a boat on a river with
- Spondaic tetrameter:
- * Long sounds move slow
- Pyrrhic tetrameter :
- * And the white breast of the dim sea
- Amphibracic tetrameter:
- * And, speaking of birds, there's the Russian Palooski, / Whose headski is redski and belly is blueski.
