dimeter
a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
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How to use dimeter in a sentence
The hind-men responded with a sing-song trochaic dimeter which sounded like a long-drawn-out monosyllable.
The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund CandlerThere are in both three series of iambuses—the dimeter, the cataleptic trimeter, and the acataleptic.
Myth and Science | Tito VignoliTheir rhyme, if not quite pure, is abundant and catching, and their nearest metrical affinity would be a trochaic dimeter.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorHe wrote two famous hymns, one of them in the popular trochaic tetrameter, the other in the equally simple iambic dimeter.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorThis verse is therefore the almost exact equivalent of the Greek iambic dimeter.
A History of Sanskrit Literature | Arthur A. MacDonell
British Dictionary definitions for dimeter
/ (ˈdɪmɪtə) /
prosody a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet or a verse written in this metre
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