tetrameter

English

Alternative forms

tetrametre

Etymology

From tetra- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: te‧tra‧me‧ter

Noun

tetrameter (countable and uncountable, plural tetrameters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
(prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.

Derived terms

iambic tetrameter

Translations

a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)

Albanian: tetrametër m
Catalan: tetrámetro m
Danish: tetrameter
Finnish: tetrametri (fi)
French: tétramètre (fr)
Galician: tetrâmetro m
German: Tetrameter (de) n
Greek: τετράμετρο (el) m (tetrámetro)
Portuguese: tetrâmetro m
Romanian: tetrametru (ro) m
Russian: тетра́метр (ru) m (tetrámetr)
Spanish: tetrámetro m
Swedish: tetrameter
Vietnamese: câu thơ tứ bộ vi

See also

(poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

tetrametre