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dimeter Prosody.|ˈdɪmɪtə(r)|
[a. L. dimetrus n., dimeter, -metrus adj., a. Gr. δίµετρος of two measures, f. δι- twice + µέτρον measure.]
A verse consisting of two measures, i.e. either two feet or four feet.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. (Arb.) 143 In the dimeter, made of two sillables entier. ēxtrēame dĕsīre. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iv. Wks. (Rtldg.) 399/1 When he comes forth With dimeters, and trimeters, tetrameters, Pentameters, hexameters, catalectics..What is all this, but canting? 1775Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. & Versif. Chaucer iii. §7 in Chaucer's Wks., The Octosyllable Metre..was in reality the antient Dimeter Iambic. 1837–39Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) I. 30 The line of eight syllables, or dimeter iambic. 1882Goodwin Gk. Gram. 317 In most kinds of verse, a monometer consists of one foot, a dimeter of two feet. |
