dimeter

1. A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet.
2. A line of verse consisting of two measures of two feet each, especially one in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter in classical prosody.

[Late Latin dimeter, dimetrus, having two verses, from Greek dimetros : di-, two; see di-¹ + metron, meter; see meter¹.]

dimeter [dim‐it‐er], a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet (see foot). In English verse, this means a line with two main stresses. The term originally referred, in classical prosody, to a line of two dipodies, i.e. four feet.

dĭmeter, metrical line containing two metra or metrical sequences; see METRE, GREEK 1.

A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet, or of two dipodies.

In poetry, a dimeter is a metrical line of verse with two feet. Consider Thomas Hood's "Bridge of Sighs:"

Take her up \\ tenderly,

Lift her \\ with care,

Fashioned so \\ slenderly,

Young and \\ so fair.

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