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Definition of trimeter in English: trimeternoun ˈtrɪmɪtəˈtrʌɪmɪtəˈtrɪmɪdər Prosody A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet. 〔诗韵〕三音格，三音步 Example sentencesExamples - The number of feet per line determines the metre of a poem: if a single line contains one foot, it is called monometer, two feet is diameter, three is trimeter, etc.
- She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
- In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
- Justice discovered early on a way with trimeters, whose cautious motion fit his muted resolve; pentameters took him longer to master, though by the '80s he had made them his own as well.
- Although the English meter is properly iambic, often with feminine endings, line length is erratic, ranging from trimeter to pentameter, except for the two shortest lines, which appear in dimeter.
- The regular speech-verse is the iambic trimeter.
- Poems in iambic dimeters and trimeters are found in abundance in her first book, as are poems written in trochaic measure.
Derivativesadjective trʌɪˈmɛtrɪk Prosody Should you want to save an isometric or trimetric named view rather than working with it as the default, simply set it as the default temporarily and choose View, Reorient. Example sentencesExamples - While lines one through eight roughly adhere to a trimetric structure, line nine-containing the statement ‘Reader, before you condemn, pause’ is heptametric, carrying roughly twice the rhythmic weight of previous lines.
- Thus, three separate scales are needed to generate a trimetric projection of an object.
- FIGS. 19 and 20 are trimetric illustrative and cross-sectional views, respectively, of other means by which this invention can hold a gimbaled rod-butt end against twisting.
adjectivetrʌɪˈmɛtrɪk(ə)l Prosody The complex sentence fragment running over these lines is trimetrical in shape, but each trimeter is not a discrete unit. Example sentencesExamples - Their lush certain music I doubt is wholly ascribable to this trimetrical device, however, which explains only their splendid cadence.
- The rhythmic romp of the waltz can be felt in the poet's iambic trimetrical quatrains.
- An anapestic or dactylic trimetrical line will have nine syllables, and a trisyllabic tetrametrical line will have twelve syllables.
OriginMid 16th century: via Latin from Greek trimetros, from tri- 'three' + metron 'measure'. Definition of trimeter in US English: trimeternounˈtrɪmɪdərˈtrimidər Prosody A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet. 〔诗韵〕三音格，三音步 Example sentencesExamples - The number of feet per line determines the metre of a poem: if a single line contains one foot, it is called monometer, two feet is diameter, three is trimeter, etc.
- Justice discovered early on a way with trimeters, whose cautious motion fit his muted resolve; pentameters took him longer to master, though by the '80s he had made them his own as well.
- In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters (four-foot lines) with trimeters (three-foot lines).
- Although the English meter is properly iambic, often with feminine endings, line length is erratic, ranging from trimeter to pentameter, except for the two shortest lines, which appear in dimeter.
- Poems in iambic dimeters and trimeters are found in abundance in her first book, as are poems written in trochaic measure.
- She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
- The regular speech-verse is the iambic trimeter.
OriginMid 16th century: via Latin from Greek trimetros, from tri- ‘three’ + metron ‘measure’. |