Tetrameter: alternatives and connections

A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two d…

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…

Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.

Anapestic.

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes…

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six fee…

unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a s…

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth al…

Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.