tetrameter

[ te-tram-i-ter ]

/ tɛˈtræm ɪ tər /

Prosody. a verse of four feet.

Classical Prosody. a line consisting of four dipodies in trochaic, iambic, or anapestic meter.

Prosody. consisting of four metrical feet.

Origin of tetrameter

1605–15; < Latin tetrametrus < Greek tetrámetros having four measures. See tetra-, meter²

In its highest order, the lyric or 'ode,' it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics.

English Verse |Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
It is called a tetrameter, and consists of fifteen syllables (mostly —∪, called trochees).

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' |H. B. Cotterill
A tetrameter brachycatalectic in both sections may also be broken up either by leonine or by inserted rhyme.

A History of English Versification |Jakob Schipper
A stanza made up of tetrameter alternating with trimeter is very common.

English: Composition and Literature |W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

In its highest order, the lyric or “ode,” it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics.

The Unknown Eros |Coventry Patmore

tetrameter

/ (tɛˈtræmɪtə) /

a line of verse consisting of four metrical feet

a verse composed of such lines

(in classical prosody) a line of verse composed of four dipodies