"Trimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... foot is briefly thus defined: Two syllables, a short with long behind: Repeat it six times o'er, so quick its beat, 'Tis trimeter, three measures for six feet: At first it ran straight on; but, years ago, Its hearers begged that it would move more slow; On which it took, with a good-natured air, Stout spondees in, its native rights to share, Yet so that none should ask it to ...
— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace
... deceive me, the metre of this line was meant to express that sort of mild philosophic contempt, characterising Brutus even in his first casual speech. The line is a trimeter,—each dipodia containing two accented and two unaccented syllables, but variously arranged, ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge |
