I am not going to change my caesuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachycatalectic, you had better not wait to hear it.

"You will often find in the Greek Tragedians, and in SENECA; that when a Scene grows up into the warmth of Repartees, which is the close fighting of it, the latter part of the trimeter is supplied by him who answers:

The poem being designed for children, the measure should have been reduced to iambic trimeter, and made exact at that.

MEASURE VI.IAMBIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER.

" In ballads, ditties, hymns, and versified psalms, scarcely any line is more common than the iambic trimeter, here denied to be "frequently used;" of which species, there are about seventy lines among the examples above.

MEASURE VI.TROCHAIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER.

" MEASURE II.ANAPESTIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER.

Dimeter with Trimeter.

MEASURE VI.DACTYLIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER.

The eight stanzas of this last example, have eight lines of iambic trimeter; and, since seven times in eight, this metre holds the first place in the stanza, it is a double fault, that one such line seems strayed from its proper position.

What are the several combinations that form dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octometer?

See also Dimeter, Trimeter, &c. Iambus, or iamb, defined Idea of unity, and of plurality, how formed Identity of words, the principle of, considered Identity, proper, RULE for, ("Same Cases.")

feet, number to be recognized in Eng., principal Eng., named and defined, kinds of, which form ORDERS OF VERSE, what combinations of, severally form dimeter, trimeter, &c., (See Dimeter, Trimeter, &c.) Poetic collocation of words, in prose, as offending against perspicuity, PREC.

feet, number to be recognized in Eng., principal Eng., named and defined, kinds of, which form ORDERS OF VERSE, what combinations of, severally form dimeter, trimeter, &c., (See Dimeter, Trimeter, &c.) Poetic collocation of words, in prose, as offending against perspicuity, PREC.

Trimeter line, iambic, the measure seldom used alone; examples of, and do., with diversifications trochaic, examples of anapestic, examples of alternated with the tetram., examp., "The Rose," of COWP.; the same scanned dactylic, examples of.

Some prosodists have taught the absurdity, that two feet are necessary to constitute a metre, and have accordingly applied the terms, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, and hexameter,or so many of them as they could so misapply,in a sense very different from the usual acceptation.

And verses are to be denominated Monometer, Dimeter, Trimeter, &c., according to "THE NUMBER OF FEET."See ib.

TRIMETER, a. Consisting of three poetical measures, forming an iambic of six feet.

According to these definitions, Dimeter has as many feet as Tetrameter; and Trimeter has as many as Hexameter!

When a verse consists of one foot, it is called a monometer; of two feet, a dimeter; of three feet, a trimeter; of four feet, a tetrameter; of five feet, a pentameter; and of six feet, a hexameter.

U| U| U | Trimeter.

So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.

Less readily may we suppose that any deep philosophical impulse directed his mind towards certain modes of expression, than that in an age of catholic experiment he turned from the penning of impossible iambic trimeters, 'minding,' as E. K. directly informs us, 'to furnish our tongue with this kind, wherein it faulteth.'

A version in the Slavonic Illyrian dialect appeared in 1598; a Latin one in iambic trimeters by Andrea Hiltebrando, a Pomeranian physician, in 1615; another in modern Greek in 1745.