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Definition of Tetrameters
1. tetrameter [n] - See also: tetrameter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrameters
Literary usage of Tetrameters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"Even in his early youth Cicero made attempts in various departments of literature.
He composed, among other poems, one in trochaic tetrameters entitled ..."
2. A Treatise on Versification by Robert Wilson Evans (1852)
"CHAPTER X. OK THE PAUSES OF THE VARIOUS tetrameters 72. WE have seen that in
proportion to the length of the line the caesuras become more marked, ..."
3. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"Then again, the two sets of trochaic tetrameters, which came at the end of the
parabasis, cannot have been sung, as their very name implies. ..."
4. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"The ratios for the two sorts of tetrameters respectively are: tribrach, ...
One hundred and fifty-three of the 181 tetrameters that contain trisyllabic feet ..."
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