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English
Etymology
From di- (“two”) + -meter.
Pronunciation
Noun
dimeter (countable and uncountable, plural dimeters)
- (poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.
- (poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.
See also
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)
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