Trimeter: Three feet: sometimes termed tripody, a triple foot, one measure made up of three feet. An example is percy bysshe shelley's 'to a skylark,' which uses trochaic trimeters for the first two lines of each stanza.

 

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Trimeter: Three feet: sometimes termed tripody, a triple foot, one measure made up of three feet. An example is percy bysshe shelley's 'to a skylark,' which uses trochaic trimeters for the first two l . . . View Full Definition

Iambic Trimeter: A classical greek and latin metre with three iambic feet (also known in english as the alexandrine).

Limerick: A fixed verse form appearing first in the history of sixteen wonderful old women (1820), popularized by edward lear, and rhyming aabba, where a-lines have five feet and the b-lines three fee . . . View Full Definition

Lullaby: A song written for children, especially a calming one designed to help an infant go to sleep. The genre is often marked by trimeter or duple meter in its metrical line, repetition, soothing . . . View Full Definition

Ballad: A popular song, often recited aloud, narrating a story, and passed down orally. Over 300 traditional english ballads, in up to 25 versions each, were edited as the so-called 'child ballads' . . . View Full Definition

Pythiambic: A classical greek and latin metrical form, dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter couplets.

Common Measure: A quatrain that rhymes abab and alternates four-stress and three-stress iambic lines (each pair equivalent to a single line of 14 syllables), the metre of the hymn and the ballad. An example . . . View Full Definition

Hallelujah Meter: Verse written in stanzas with each stanza containing six iambic lines, four trimeter lines, and two tetrameter lines--commonly appearing in English hymns.