trimeter

But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

The single, round, tank-mounted gauge could stand to be a bit larger to accommodate a larger LED display screen, where you'll get dual trimeters, gear indicator, speedometer, gas mileage, clock, etc.

It consists of alternating tetrameters and trimeters with the rhymes falling on the latter, as in example 6, based on Our Father.

Harvey comments of Immerito's trimeters, for example:

trimeters and features twelve instances of zeugma (see Paul

Brand, too, utilizes iambic pentameters, but in order to render settenari he avails himself of trimeters and tetrameters; he has largely met his goal to 'match the number of lines in each scene, and indeed each speech, in order to ease the reader's task in identifying the appropriate line across the page' of the original Italian (p.

(51) The pathetic tone is here accentuated by sentences such as '[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]' 'do you prefer that I should die by a death that never dies?' (3,17,4), which, apart from the language, recalls tragedy inasmuch as it falls very close to an iambic trimeter. For iambic trimeters in Achilles Tatius see Liapis 2006, 223-227.

Perhaps he thought the pessimism of many of the poems in the book should be allowed to stand as his statement at the time (and "Death in Battle" made a better final poem); perhaps he decided the trimeters did not work well for what he had to say; perhaps he thought the action of Despoina in opening a window might draw university authorities' attention to him if the authorship was ever known; perhaps it was written too late to be included (and Greeves copied it as a final statement)--in short, the reason for exclusion is not known.