Tetrameter
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. However, the particular foot can vary, as follows:Anapestic tetrameter:
- * "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea"
- * "Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house"
- * "And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse / And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works" Iambic tetrameter:
- * "Because I could not stop for Death" Trochaic tetrameter:
- * "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" Dactylic tetrameter:
- * Picture your self in a boat on a river with Spondaic tetrameter:
- * Long sounds move slowPyrrhic tetrameter :
- * And the white breast of the dim seaAmphibrachic tetrameter:
- * And, speaking of birds, there's the Russian Palooski, / Whose headski is redski and belly is blueski.