10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TETRAMETER»
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tetrameter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tetrameter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
650. Cretic dimeter with trochaic pen- themimer. 651. Trochaic hephthemimer
with same repeated. 652. Trochaic tetrameter acatalectic. 653. Trochaic
monometer with trochaic penthemimer. 654. Trochaic dimeter. 655. Cretic
trimeter (2 verses) ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, J. M'Cosh, 1896
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T. Macci Plavti Menaechmi
588 Anapaestic tetrameter acatalectic. 589 Anapaestic tetrameter catalectic. 590
— 91 Trochaic tetrameter acatalectic. 592 Trochaic tetrameter catalectic. 593
Second glyconic and dochmiac. 594 Trochaic tetrameter acatalectic. 595
Trochaic ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, Clara M. Knight, 1919
85 bacchiac tetrameter. 86 bacchiac dimeter + Reizian colon (see crit. note on
313^). 89 a anapaestic dimeter. 89 b bacchiac tetrameter. 90 iambic dimeter cat.
91-97 bacchiac tetrameter. 98 iambic dimeter cat. 99-101 bacchiac tetrameter.
Titus Maccius Plautus, 1907
588 Anapaestic tetrameter acatalectic. 589 Anapaestic tetrameter catalectic. 590
— 91 Trochaic tetrameter acatalectic. 592 Trochaic tetrameter catalectic. 593
Second glyconic and dochmiac. 594 Trochaic tetrameter acatalectic. 595
Trochaic ...
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The University of Texas Record
Tetrameter Verses. Number of poems in which the verse is used. (1) Tetrameter
couplet; iambic foot 38 (2) Tetrameter couplet; trochaic foot (Poems 12 and 110)
2 (3) Tetrameter tercets; iambic foot; all the lines of each stanza rhyming 4 (4) ...
University of Texas, 1903
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The University of Texas Record
APPENDIX A. The following are the verse forms used by Carew, together with the
number of poems in which each form occurs. Where the number of the poem is
referred to, I have had in mind the Hazlitt edition: /. Tetrameter Verses. Number of
...
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Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding ...
A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from
Chaucer's octosyllabic lines' Xingzhong Li Nat that I wilne, for maistrye, Here art
poetical be shewed, But for the rym ys lyght and lewed, Yit make hyt sumwhat ...
Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons, 2004
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Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
The commonest form of tetrameter is, as we have seen, iambic tetrameter, duple
four-beat lines that normally begin on an offbeat and end on a beat. The word "
tetrameter" can refer either to the meter ("This poem is in iambic tetrameter") or to
a ...
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
C. Scott TETRAMETER (Gr., “of four measures”). I. Classical II. Modern I.
Classical. In Gr. and Lat., the basic meter for recitation forms is the trochaic
tetrameter catalectic, i.e., four trochaic metra (units of measurement; see ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
... Wind' and the Sonnet Form,” Keats–Shelley Journal (). C. Scott
TETRAMETER (Gr., “of four measures”). I. Classical II. Modern I. Classical. In Gr.
and Lat., the basic meter for recitation forms is the trochaic tetrameter catalectic,
i.e., ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TETRAMETER»
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then a more or less straight iambic tetrameter (eight syllables); then an iambic pentameter (10 syllables); then a wholly unscannable ten-syllable line. If this were ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
Nevermore — The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar …
They narrate in verse (mostly iambic tetrameter) as they play multiple roles. The exposition comes fast and furious, with characters as large and two-dimensional ... «TheaterMania.com, Jan 15»
Love Hard, Drink Harder: 11 Things Only Russian Lit-Lovers Know
With Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin proved to the world that a man with a foot fetish could communicate in iambic tetrameter. And very nicely, too. «Bustle, Jan 15»
From The Archives: Rudolph Turns 75
He penned a long poem in the same meter as A Visit From St. Nicholas (for POEM members it scans as anapestic tetrameter - - /). In fact, the first line of May's ... «New Hampshire Public Radio, Dec 14»
Writing to the Beat
... toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble” — was a good example of trochaic tetrameter, to me it sounded like the classic paradiddle rudiment: right, left, ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
Longest poem of classical-era unearthed in western Turkey
... Milas Uzunyuva Project Epigraph Professor Christian Marek, the writing on the stela has a poetical language in a style called “catalectic trochaic tetrameter.” «Hurriyet Daily News, Oct 14»
Why Does English Use "Iambic Pentameter" and Other Greek Poetic …
And of course the numbers—trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, etc.—are all from the Greek numerals. So what does meter based on heavy and light ... «Slate Magazine, Sep 14»
One Seuss, Two Seuss, Red Seuss, New Seuss: A Gallery from the …
And, naturally, some unforgettable anapestic tetrameter: “He climbed. He grew dizzy. His ankles grew numb. / But he climbed and he climbed and he clum and ... «Daily Beast, Sep 14»
Please Join Me In Loathing Gary Turk's '#LookUp'
It makes me lonely because by now an estimated 100 percent of people I know have forwarded, posted, or retweeted Turk's sprung-tetrameter rhyme, usually ... «National Review Online, May 14»
Speaking Gobblefunk
Roald Dahl's “Revolting Rhymes,” in similar iambic tetrameter couplets, are updated Belloc. His verses are curses, demanding to be chanted aloud. And herein ... «New York Times, Nov 13»
