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Meter of poetry
The Iambic trimeter, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English
Iambic_trimeter
Type of meter (poetry)
Look up trimeter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In poetry, a trimeter (Greek for "three measure") is a metre of three metrical feet per line. Examples:
Trimeter
Repeating 3 to 6-syllable section of a poetic metre
"trimeter", and "tetrameter" are used for metres that consist of one, two, three, or four metra respectively. Thus an ancient Greek iambic trimeter has
Metron_(poetry)
Feature of Ancient Greek prosody
metrical law that applies to iambic trimeter, the main spoken metre of Greek tragedy. It does not apply to iambic trimeter in Greek comedy. It was formulated
Porson's_law
Type of poetic metre
alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed
Common_metre
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
to the number of feet they contain, using the terms monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter, although
Metrical_foot
Form of poetry
verses. It is written in five-line, predominantly anapestic and amphibrach trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of A A B B A {\displaystyle \mathrm {AABBA}
Limerick_(poetry)
Metrical foot
Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk" (1782), composed in anapaestic trimeter: I must finish my journey alone An example of anapaestic tetrameter is
Anapaest
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
has only one foot, it is called a monometer; two feet, dimeter; three is trimeter; four is tetrameter; five is pentameter; six is hexameter, seven is heptameter
Metre_(poetry)
Metrical foot
A line of iambic pentameter comprises five consecutive iambs. Iambic trimeter is the metre of the spoken verses in Greek tragedy and comedy, comprising
Iamb_(poetry)
Theory and practice of versification
common meter, which is used in the dialogues of Greek plays, is the iambic trimeter. The basic scheme for this is as follows (where "x" represents an anceps
Greek_prosody
Ode by Thomas Gray
a ABABCCDEED rhyme sceme, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Ode_on_a_Distant_Prospect_of_Eton_College
1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
seafaring, superstition Form Ballad Meter iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter Rhyme scheme abcb Publisher J. & A. Arch Publication date 1798 Media type
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
Comedy by Aristophanes
iamb (.-). Elements Lines Metres Summary Comments Prologue 1–229 iambic trimeter Dialogue setting the scene. conventional opening [o-.-] [o-.-] [o-.-] line
The_Wasps
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Iambic_pentameter
1832 ballad by Alfred Tennyson
literature Form Ballad Meter Iambic tetrameter with isolated lines in iambic trimeter Rhyme scheme Aaaabcccb Publication date 1832 & 1842 Lines 180 (1832) 171
The_Lady_of_Shalott
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
metron was | – – u – |. The most popular type of iambic meter was the trimeter, also (especially with respect to the form used in comedy) called the iambic
Latin_prosody
Body of literary work by Roman poet Catullus from 62 to 54 BC
Three poems (4, 29 and 52) use the iambic trimeter. The iambic trimeter used in 4 and 29 differs from the trimeters of comedy or tragedy in that every foot
Poetry_of_Catullus
Scottish novelist (1771–1832)
in iambic tetrameters and the narrative in tetrameters with frequent trimeters. The reception by the reviewers was less favourable than that accorded
Walter_Scott
Poem by Robert Frost
Evening". The poem is written in the form of a lyric poem, with an iambic trimeter meter and AABBCCDD rhyme scheme. Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem,
Nothing_Gold_Can_Stay_(poem)
Poem by W. B. Yeats
and third lines in tetrameter, the second, fourth, and sixth lines in trimeter, and the fifth line in pentameter, so that the pattern of stressed syllables
The Wild Swans at Coole (poem)
The_Wild_Swans_at_Coole_(poem)
Poem by A. C. Swinburne
same internal pattern of rhymes. This rhyme scheme is recognized as a trimeter, with the pattern ABABCCCB, placing stress at the end of the poem where
The_Garden_of_Proserpine
Section, line, or type of poem in Ancient Greek poetry
in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter. (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as in Horace's Epodes) to refer
Epode
American poet (1830–1886)
commonly supposed". Dickinson avoids pentameter, opting more generally for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter. Sometimes her use of these meters
Emily_Dickinson
Feature of Latin and Greek poetic metre
syllable at the end of a line, including dactylic hexameters and iambic trimeters. It can also be found in the centre of a line in some metres, before a
Brevis_in_longo
Greek and Latin poetic form
pythiambic combines a dactylic hexameter with an ionic trimeter. In Horace's Epode 16 the trimeter is "pure", that is, every anceps position is a short
Archilochian
Poetry meters
employed by Ovid for all his extant works except the Metamorphoses Iambic trimeter, the most common meter in the dialogue portions of tragedy and comedy (also
Greek_and_Latin_metre
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Greek tragedy comprised lyric and dialogue, the latter mostly in iambic trimeter (three pairs of iambic feet per line). Euripides sometimes 'resolved' the
Euripides
Classical Arabic Poetic Metre
– | However, more usually the metre is found in a trimeter version. The full version of the trimeter is as follows: فَاعِلَاتُنْ فَاعِلُنْ فَاعِلَاتُنْ
Madīd_(metre)
Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln
refrain, which changes slightly from stanza to stanza, in a tetrameter/trimeter ballad beat. Historian Daniel Mark Epstein wrote in 2004 that he considers
O_Captain!_My_Captain!
Ancient Greek geographer
Nicomedes. It is an account of the world (periegesis) in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicated to a King Nicomedes of Bithynia. This is either Nicomedes
Pseudo-Scymnus
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by the insertion of a longum instead of a breve. Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line
Choliamb
Four-line poetic verse, known as a quatrain
iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. Assonance in place of rhyme is common.[citation
Ballad_stanza
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
achieves an effect resembling natural speech through the use of the iambic trimeter (corresponding to the effects achieved by English poets such as Shakespeare
Aristophanes
Ancient Greek lyric poet (c. 630–c. 570 BC)
considered iambic in genre, even though they were not composed in iambic trimeter, by ancient sources. Though the word "élite" is used as a shorthand for
Sappho
the stanza should be thought of as one foot, the whole stanza becoming a trimeter line. Williams' collections Journey to Love (1955) and The Desert Music
Triadic-line_poetry
Line of verse with just one metrical foot or dipody
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Monometer
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Dactylic_hexameter
Line consisting of four iambic feet
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Iambic_tetrameter
Pause or break in poetry or music
usually thought of as a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of trimeter, but it can also be considered a line of heptameter with a fixed caesura
Caesura
Form of poetry
dramatic dialogue, whether in English iambic pentameter or Greek iambic trimeter, also tends to be stichic in nature. Look up stichic in Wiktionary, the
Stichic
beginning of a line are characteristic of the iambic trimeter of Greek drama. A typical iambic trimeter has the following form ("–" = long, "u" = short, and
Anceps
Poem by Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 1942–1945
mostly written in trochaic tetrameter, with some chapters in trochaic trimeter. According to a sociological survey conducted in 2015 by the magazine "Russian
Vasily_Tyorkin
Eighth century BC wine cup
line is less certain: it has been read as prose, iambic trimeter, catalectic trochaic trimeter, or a lyric meter. The inscription subverts a common formula
Nestor's_Cup_(Pithekoussai)
Lyric poem by Emily Dickinson
stanzas, each containing alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, totaling 12 lines. In Victoria N. Morgan's Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture:
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
"Hope"_is_the_thing_with_feathers
Meter used in Greek, Latin, and Persian poetry
ionic rhythm is common in classical Persian poetry and exists in both trimeter and tetrameter versions. Nearly 10% of lyric poems are written in the following
Ionic_meter
Poetic line of eleven syllables
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Hendecasyllable
1842 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Language English Subject Death of Arthur Hallam Genre elegy Meter irregular trimeter Rhyme scheme abcb defe ... Lines 16 Full text Break, Break, Break at Wikisource
Break,_Break,_Break
Replacing long syllables with two shorts in poetry
they are almost always within the same word-unit. One example from iambic trimeter: τίνων τὸ σεμνὸν ὄνομ' ἂν εὐξαίμην κλύων; tínōn tò semnòn ónom' àn euxaímēn
Resolution_(metre)
Poem by Lewis Carroll
Each stanza contains alternating lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, and the three trimetric lines rhyme with each other. The verses are scattered
The_Mad_Gardener's_Song
Aria from W. A. Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
which is mostly in iambic tetrameter), followed by a quatrain in iambic trimeter, then a final pentameter couplet. The rhyme scheme is [ABAB][CCCD][ED]
Queen_of_the_Night_aria
Poetic line consisting of 14 syllables
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Fourteener_(poetry)
1946 poem by Robert Lowell
Castle. The poem is written in an irregular combination of pentameter and trimeter and divided into seven sections. It is dedicated to Lowell's cousin, "Warren
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
The_Quaker_Graveyard_in_Nantucket
Poetic line of four trochaic feet
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Trochaic_tetrameter
Metre in classical Arabic poetry
of three feet (trimeter), but can also be of two feet (dimeter). Thus the possible forms are: | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | (trimeter) | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | ⏓
Rajaz
Egyptian actor
in the Sibylline Oracles. Exagōgē is a five-act drama written in iambic trimeter, retelling of the biblical story of The Exodus from Egypt. Moses is the
Ezekiel_the_Tragedian
1845 poem by Robert Browning
an irregular metre consisting of alternating trimeter, tetrameter and pentameter lines and a final trimeter line, with an ABABCCDD rhyming scheme. The second
Home_Thoughts_from_Abroad
1st-century Roman poet and satirist
and Fulgentius. A seventy-line hexameter poem and two lines of iambic trimeter attributed to her survive; the hexameters are now generally thought to
Sulpicia_(satirist)
5th-century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
English was by Robert Potter in 1779, using blank verse for the iambic trimeters and rhymed verse for the choruses, a convention adopted by most translators
Aeschylus
Metrical pattern in poetry
caesura. A frequent type of occurrence in Greek drama is in lines of iambic trimeter, the most frequent metre used in spoken dialogue, i.e. lines of the type
Lekythion
Verse of the classic meter
Kiparsky from the iambic trimeter, for example, the hendecasyllable and lesser asclepiad: x – u – | u – u – | u – u – (iambic trimeter) x x – u | u – u – |
Glyconic
Collection of fables credited to Aesop
from India. The first extensive translation of Aesop into Latin iambic trimeters was performed by Phaedrus, a freedman of Augustus in the 1st century CE
Aesop's_Fables
Pattern of syllables in the stanzas of hymns
(four-line stanza) with alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, which rhymes in the second and fourth lines and sometimes in the first
Metre_(hymn)
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Hexameter
Metrical foot
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Trochee
Nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll
tussle between the tetrameter in the first three lines of each stanza and trimeter in the last lines, such that one undercuts the other and we are left off
Jabberwocky
Four-line poem or stanza
to me. The hymnal stanza consists of alternating rhymes with the iambic trimeter and the iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of A B C B {\displaystyle
Quatrain
Roman monument in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
restored and coated with plates of gilt bronze; a Greek inscription in iambic trimeter was added at this time. The inscription mentions the repair works carried
Walled_Obelisk
Latin poem by Catullus
grammar in several sections. The meter of the poem is unusual — iambic trimeter, which was perhaps chosen to convey a sense of speed over the waves. Scholars
Catullus_4
Metres used in Plautus and Terence
Greek comic iambic trimeter, which in turn is based on the more formal iambic trimeter of tragedy. The Greek tragic iambic trimeter goes as follows (in
Metres_of_Roman_comedy
v t e Poetic meters Meter Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter
Kamil_(metre)
Form of Judaism in classical antiquity
Jewish poet who wrote a play Exagōgē, a paraphrase of the Exodus in iambic trimeter Jason of the Oniad family, High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem from
Hellenistic_Judaism
Ancient Greek poet
by Pigres. He was the first poet, apparently, who introduced the iambic trimeter. Pigres is one of the many historical characters featured in Gore Vidal's
Pigres_of_Halicarnassus
English proverb
between the wording of the proverb and that of an unattributed Greek iambic trimeter verse quoted by Cicero in one of his letters Ad Atticum (51 BC), but here
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
There's_many_a_slip_'twixt_the_cup_and_the_lip
Topics referred to by the same term
dictionary. Iamb (poetry) Choliamb Iambus (genre), or iambic poetry Iambic trimeter Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter, or the alexandrine
Iamb
alive and well. Svetlana consists of 20 stanzas of alternating trochaic trimeter (feminine rhymes) and trochaic tetrameter (masculine rhymes). Each stanza
Svetlana_(ballad)
quoted phrase corpusque suaui telino unguimus is part of a scazon or iambic trimeter. Its author has also been identified as C. Iulius Caesar Strabo, the dictator's
Poems_by_Julius_Caesar
Poem by Emily Dickinson
Emerson. The poem's three unemotional quatrains are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter. Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with
Success_is_counted_sweetest
Poem by William Cullen Bryant
in the world".[citation needed] "To a Waterfowl" is written in iambic trimeter and iambic pentameter, consisting of eight stanzas of four lines. The poem
To_a_Waterfowl
Poem by Emily Dickinson
first line, the rhythm alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The poem employs alliteration, anaphora, simile, satire, and internal
I'm_Nobody!_Who_are_you?
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Asclepiad_(poetry)
Metrical feature found in Roman comedy
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Brevis_brevians
Form of theatre from Ancient Greece
tragedy deals with stem from epic and lyric poetry, its meter—the iambic trimeter—owed much to the political rhetoric of Solon, and the choral songs' dialect
Greek_tragedy
Poem by William Blake
desires. The first two stanzas of the poem are written in a loose anapestic trimeter and rhyme acbc. The third stanza begins in the same way, but the last two
The_Garden_of_Love_(poem)
Collection of poems by Horace
and Hipponax. The metrical pattern of Epodes 1–10 consists of an iambic trimeter (three sets of two iambs) followed by an iambic dimeter (two sets of two
Epodes_(Horace)
Aria in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Cherubino, to victory: To glory in battle! The meter of the verse is anapestic trimeter for the first two stanzas, trochaic tetrameter for the remainder. The intricate
Non_più_andrai
Poem by William Wordsworth
rhyming scheme of ABAB. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. In the poem, the speaker narrates a night time ride to the cottage of
Strange fits of passion have I known
Strange_fits_of_passion_have_I_known
Metre in early Roman poetry
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Saturnian_(poetry)
Tudor-era poem (1536)
has a fairly loose structure, with most lines either being tetrameter or trimeter. At the end of each major stanza, there is a refrain, varying slightly
O_Death_Rock_Me_Asleep
Poem by Alfred Tennyson
Claribel by Alfred Tennyson Genre Romanticism Meter Iambic trimeter Rhyme scheme Irregular Publication date 1830 1842 1851 Lines 21 Full text Poems (Tennyson
Claribel_(poem)
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Choriamb
2nd century BCE Greek grammarian and historian
years to which Apollodorus was referring. The poem is written in comic trimeters and is dedicated to the second-century BC king of Pergamon, Attalus II
Apollodorus_of_Athens
were written in elegiac couplets and iambic poems were written in iambic trimeter. The most important iambic poet was Archilochus of Paros (7th century BC)
Ancient_Greek_literature
shorts. Resolution is typically found in an iambic metre such as the iambic trimeter or a trochaic metre such as the trochaic septenarius. Roland Greene; Stephen
Biceps_(prosody)
Genre of ancient Greek poetry
was composing choliambs, a deliberately awkward version of the iambic trimeter symbolizing mankind's imperfections and vices, yet by then iambus seems
Iambus_(genre)
Sound change
synizesis in particular positions. Johannes Rumpel noted that, in iambic trimeter, synizesis frequently occurs at either the arsis (second syllable) of the
Synizesis
Poetry composed of three lines
is the form used in Byron's The Prophecy of Dante. Triadic-line poetry Trimeter Haiku Haiku in English William Baer, Writing metrical poetry: contemporary
Tercet
Festival in Ancient Greece
songs described as having a "boastful" tone, which were written in iambic trimeter. The same songs would be used each year. The choruses were divided into
Gymnopaedia
1998 opera by Heinz Holliger
He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera received its première on 17 October 1998 at the Zurich Opera
Schneewittchen_(opera)
Poetic metre used in Catullus's poem 63
Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable
Galliambic_verse
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