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Definition of Dimeter
1. a. Having two poetical measures or meters.
Definition of Dimeter
1. Noun. (poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet. ¹
2. Noun. (poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dimeter
1. a verse of two metrical feet [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dimeter
Literary usage of Dimeter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"The unconscious effort to secure regularity of order, without that sacrifice of
variety which would have produced monotony, evolved two forms of the dimeter ..."
2. A System of Greek Prosody and Metre, for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1842)
"Strictly speaking, indeed, there is no difference in this measure between the
second and fourth feet, since a system or set of dimeter iambics is nothing ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It comprises three strophes of four verses in Classical iambic dimeter, the verses
rhyming in couplets, together with a fourth concluding strophe (or ..."
4. Latin Hymns: With English Notes for Use in Schools and Colleges edited by Francis Andrew March (1883)
"1, 3, dimeter, rhyming; 2, 4, 8, dimeter ... rhyming; 5, 6, 7, acephalous dimeter
... 1,3, 5, dimeter; 2, 4, 6, dimeter acephalous ; 1 and 2, 3 and 4, ..."
5. The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools and Private Study by Eduard Munk (1844)
"The Latin comic writers sometimes use a dimeter among ... Trochaic closes are
frequently appended to the dimeter: Plaut. Most. III. 2. 1. ..."
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