Dimeter
In poetry, a dimeter /ˈdɪmɪtər/ is a metrical line of verse with two feet.[1] The particular foot can vary.
Consider Thomas Hood's "Bridge of Sighs," in which the first line of a pair is of two feet, each composed of three syllables, and the subsequent line is of two feet, each of two syllables.
- Take her up \\ tenderly,
- Lift her \\ with care,
- Fashioned so \\ slenderly,
- Young and \\ so fair.
Also, the first line of William Wordsworth's "We Are Seven":
- A simp \\ le Child[2]
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Poetic meters
- Monometer
- Dimeter
- Trimeter
- Tetrameter
- Pentameter
- Hexameter
- Heptameter
- Octameter
- Iamb
- Iambic tetrameter
- Iambic pentameter
- Iambic heptameter
- Dactyl
- Dactylic hexameter
- Trochee/Trochaic
- Trochaic tetrameter
- Trochaic octameter
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