monometer

[muh-nom-i-ter]

noun

Prosody.

1. a line of verse of one measure or foot.

monometer

/ ˌmɒnəʊˈmɛtrɪkəl, mɒˈnɒmɪtə /

noun

1. prosody a line of verse consisting of one metrical foot

Other Word Forms

• monometrical adjective
• monometric adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of monometer¹

1840–50; < Late Latin: composed in one meter < Greek monómetros, equivalent to mono- mono- + métr ( on ) meter ² + -os adj. suffix

Example Sentences

A line made of one foot is called monometer.

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Monometer, dimeter, and trimeter are not often used for a whole stanza; but they are frequently found in a stanza, introducing variety into it.

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Milton, John, quotations from, 241, 245, 248.Minor term, 129.Monometer,

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In like manner we have trochaic monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, and hexameter.

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A verse consisting of a single dactyl is thus dactylic monometer; of two dactyls, dactylic dimeter; and so on up to dactylic hexameter, which is the meter of Homer's "Iliad," Vergil's "Æneid," and Longfellow's "Evangeline" and "Courtship of Miles Standish."

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