Crossword-Solution: TRIMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trimeter | a. | Consisting of three poetical measures. |
| Trimeter | n. | A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TRIMETER | anagram | REMITTER |
We have 7 clues for the answer “TRIMETER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Line of three feet | 1 answer |
| Poetic line | 1 answer |
| Verse line with three metrical feet | 1 answer |
| Verse having three feet. | 1 answer |
| Verse of three feet | 1 answer |
| Kind of verse | 3 answers |
| verse form | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TRIMETER (5)
Then afterwards, while Candaules was sleeping, Gyges came privily up to him 10 and slew him, and he obtained both his wife and his kingdom: of him moreover Archilochos the Parian, who lived about that time, made mention in a trimeter iambic verse.
And the Pythian prophetess, as the men of Cnidos themselves report, gave them this reply in trimeter verse: "Fence not the place with towers, nor dig the isthmus through; Zeus would have made your land an island, had he willed." When the Pythian prophetess had given this oracle, the men of Cnidos not only ceased from their digging but delivered themselves to Harpagos without resistance, when he came against them with his army.
Besides the infinite variety of the lyrical strophes, which the poet invented for each occasion, they have also a measure to suit the transition in the tone of mind from the dialogue to the lyric, the anapest; and two for the dialogue itself, one of which, by far the most usual, the iambic trimeter, denoted the regular progress of the action, and the other, the trochaic tetrameter, was expressive of the impetuousness of passion.
The verse of twelve syllables, with a _sdrucciolo_ termination selected by Ariosto, is much better, resembling the trimeter of the ancients, but is still somewhat monotonous.
Quintilian, in commending him, expresses a wish that he had confined himself to the trimeter iambic rhythm.
Quotes with TRIMETER (1)
He wrote you a poem?" Evelyn looped her hand around Georgiana's arm and led the way to the chairs lining one side of the room." He did." Grateful to see Luxley select one of the debutantes as his next victim, Georgiana accepted a glass of Madeira from one of the footman. After three hours of quadrilles, waltzes, and country dances, her feet ached. "And you know what rhymes with Georgiana, don't you?" Evelyn wrinkled her brow, her gray eyes twinkling. "No, what?""Nothing. He j…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1962–2015).