"Trimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Spenserian stanza) to the passage which it closes. Intensity of expression is given by the triplet which closes the passage ending with line 125. The metrical basis of the movement in the Canto is likewise iambic tetrameter, but the trimeter or three-beat line is freely introduced, and the poet allows himself great ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott
... iambic lines, the first and third being tetrameter, and the second and fourth trimeter. The ...
— Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism • F. V. N. Painter
... is briefly thus defined: Two syllables, a short with long behind: Repeat it six times o'er, so quick its beat, 'Tis trimeter, three measures for six feet: At first it ran straight on; but, years ago, Its hearers begged that it would move more slow; On which it took, with a good-natured air, Stout spondees in, its native rights to share, Yet so that none should ask it to resign The sixth, fourth, second ...
— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace
... American, from the Last London Edition," are as sheer prose as can be written, it being quite impossible to read them into any proper rhythm. The poem being designed for children, the measure should have been reduced to iambic trimeter, and made exact at ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... progressive cooerdination presented by beaten rhythms are based on the repetition of simple forms only. The completion of the evidence requires a quantitative analysis of the temporal relations presented by the whole sequence of integrated measures which compose the common verse forms: dimeter, trimeter, etc. This matter was not taken up in the ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various |
