Tetrameter in the context of "Dr. Seuss"

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⭐ Core Definition: Tetrameter

In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. However, the particular foot can vary, as follows:

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Tetrameter in the context of Octosyllabic

The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in trochees in languages with a stress accent. Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the Vie de Saint Leger; another early use is in the early 12th-century Anglo-Norman Voyage de saint Brendan. It is often used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. While commonly used in couplets, typical stanzas using octosyllables are: décima, some quatrains, redondilla.

In Spanish verse, an octosyllable is a line that has its seventh syllable stressed, on the principle that this would normally be the penultimate syllable of a word (Lengua Castellana y Literatura, ed. Grazalema Santillana. El Verso y su Medida, p. 46). If the final word of a line does not fit this pattern, the line could have eight or seven or nine syllables (as normally counted), thus –

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Poetry → Line (poetry) → Metrical foot → Anapestic tetrameter → Lord Byron → The Destruction of Sennacherib → A Visit from St. Nicholas → Eminem → The Way I Am (Eminem song) → Iambic tetrameter → Emily Dickinson → Eponymous → Because I could not stop for Death → Trochaic tetrameter → Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater → Dactylic tetrameter → The Beatles → Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds → Spondee → Pyrrhic → Amphibrach → Dr. Seuss →