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Definition of Trimeters
1. trimeter [n] - See also: trimeter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trimeters
Literary usage of Trimeters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Verbs: Irregular and Defective; Their Forms, Meaning and Quantity by William Veitch (1879)
"... both because it may not be needed, and should it be, there may be some demur
about admitting into trimeters a form exclusively Epic. ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1886)
"CAESURA IN THE IAMBIC trimeters OF AESCHYLUS. In Aeschylus we find not only the
ordinary ... trimeters ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Heathcote William Garrod (1886)
"CAESURA IN THE IAMBIC trimeters OF AESCHYLUS. In Aeschylus we find not only the
ordinary ... trimeters ..."
4. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"In the 728 trimeters of Menander now under consideration, 199 trimeters (131 with
at least one trisyllabic foot somewhere in the verse and 68 that consist ..."
5. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"English verse into Greek Iambic trimeters, and part of some chorus in the Agamemnon
into Latin, and possibly also into English verse. ..."
6. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"Only 18 of the 728 trimeters now taken into account are pure, 1 in 40, ...
There are five such non-iambic trimeters in Menander, 1 in 146. ..."
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