Trochaic tetrameter
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Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochee. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.
For English-speakers, two of the best-known examples are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha and the Finnish Kalevala.
This can be demonstrated in the following famous excerpt from "Hiawatha's Childhood", where the accented syllables of...
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