It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician. |
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In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters with trimeters. |
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It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters. |
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The tetrameters are made to halt, by placing the strongest syntactical and rhetorical pauses within the short lines, while the strong rhymes chime out the line endings. |
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