"Trimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
... iambic trimeter. The first and third lines of each stanza have an added unaccented syllable, while the second and fourth have just three full feet. Anapestic feet are used freely to improve the music; in fact, they are nearly as numerous as ... — Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... grammar sometimes, and in her verses took all sorts of liberties with the metre. But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and ... — Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray |