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trimeter

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Recent Examples of trimeter Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss. — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024

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This task — writing a poem about a worm in anapestic tetrameter, a very specific and satisfyingly arcane poetic meter — is a challenging one, but ChatGPT was the clear winner, followed by a distant grouping of Bing then Bard.

— James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023

Definition of tetrameter

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Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.

— William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

Definition of hexameter

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The majority of Senese-Grossberg’s script has the actors speaking in contemporary language, though there are performance sequences spoken in the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare.

— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
But with Shakespeare, whose characters felt so familiar inside rules of prose and iambic pentameter, Ming-Trent found a poetry partner to hep him through life’s brutalities.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of pentameter

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In contrast to other Gulf monarchies, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar sees no threat in the Muslim Brotherhood, the political movement that spawned Hamas.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Additional investments in chemical processing, fairing preparation, tooling, and storage will support the movement of hardware through the manufacturing process.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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