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Recent Examples of tetrameter
This task — writing a poem about a worm in anapestic tetrameter, a very specific and satisfyingly arcane poetic meter — is a challenging one, but ChatGPT was the clear winner, followed by a distant grouping of Bing then Bard.
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James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tetrameter
Noun
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At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.—
Laurent Dubreuil,
Harper's Magazine,
22 May 2024
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On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.—
Gregory Hays,
The New York Review of Books,
27 May 2020
Noun
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The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Putting Vice and the Bard in the same sentence sounds sacrilegious, but the movie paints Lynne Cheney as a Lady MacBeth type and requires Adams to recite iambic pentameter about Dick’s capacity to usurp some of George W. Bush’s authority.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
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The fatal fight comes as state prison officials have moved to restrict some inmate movements at their facilities amid a wave of deadly violence.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
13 Mar. 2025
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The fashion consultant, who is squeezing in a session before work, lifts relatively light weights while doing simple movements to build strength: goblet squats with a 6-pound kettlebell, then bicep curls with a 10-pound weight.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Tetrameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tetrameter. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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