Trimeter: a metre in which the line has three sounded beats and one silent beat or
rest(), the latter generally at the end of the line:
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses (Yeats, “Easter 1916”)
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses (Yeats, “Easter 1916”)
The repeated final silent beat gives such verse an awkward, incomplete, thwarted quality, here clearly in tune with the subject matter.
The repeated final silent beat gives such verse an awkward, incomplete, thwarted quality, here clearly in tune with the subject matter.
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Citation: Groves, Peter Lewis. "Trimeter". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 June 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1762, accessed 24 November 2024.]
