| In classical terms, the meter is a slightly irregular amphribachic trimeter, alternating acatalectic and catalectic. |
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| The complex sentence fragment running over these lines is trimetrical in shape, but each trimeter is not a discrete unit. |
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| Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola. |
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| She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets. |
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| An example of iambic metre is the English ballad, composed of quatrains written in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. |
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| Short metre, also called short measure, abbreviation S. M., a quatrain of which the first, second, and fourth lines are in iambic trimeter and the third is in iambic tetrameter. |
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| Metrically, it shifts between sometimes-iambic dimeter and trimeter. |
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| The quatrains of Psalm 52 follow an ABAB-rhymed pattern of iambic trimeter alternating with dimeter, and the dimeter line always has a feminine ending. |
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