dimeter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dimeter
1580–90; < Late Latin dimeter < Greek dímetros of two measures, a dimeter, equivalent to di- di- 1 + -metros, adj. derivative of métron meter 1
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A circular table has a dimeter of 100 inches.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2018
But the dimeter rhythm gives the poem a gusty, bouncing pace, the staccato verses succeeding each other like short sharp flurries of March wind.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2010
The normal line of which these quatrains are composed is a thirteen-syllabled one divided by a central pause, so that the first half is an iambic dimeter catalectic, and the second an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
The hind-men responded with a sing-song trochaic dimeter which sounded like a long-drawn-out monosyllable.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
It might of course be easy to pick out anticipations in part of this combination of iambic dimeter, trochaic, and anapæstic; but it never had taken thorough form before.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
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