Trimeter Sentence Examples

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  • The verse-form is a heroic hexameter with an Iambic trimeter attendant upon it.

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  • An example of an iambic trimeter is The only news I know by Emily Dickinson.

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  • The metres employed by Epicharmus were iambic trimeter, and especially trochaic and anapaestic tetrameter.

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