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2 Verbs to Use for the Word dimeters
What are the several combinations that form dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octometer?
Lines of two iambs are not very uncommon, even in psalmody; and, since we have some lines yet shorter, and the lengths of all are determined only by the act of measuring, there is, surely, no propriety in calling dimeters "hemistichs," merely because they are short.