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What is a trochaic tetrameter

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Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.It refers to a line of four trochaic feet.The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochees.A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.

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