trimeter

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

[Late Latin, from Latin trimetrus, from Greek trimetros : tri-, tri- + metron, measure; see meter¹.]

trimeter [trim‐it‐er], a verse line of three feet (see foot). In English verse, this means a line of three stresses.

A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet or three dipodies.

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In poetry, a trimeter is a metre of three metrical feet per line—example:

When here // the spring // we see,

Fresh green // upon // the tree.

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