Trochaic tetrameter

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Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four contains four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.

A Simple Example

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 | DUM | da | DUM | da | DUM | da

 

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