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If a line has four feet, a poem is written in _____. trimeter tetrameter pentameter heptameter

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The answer is Tetrameter, hence the prefixes used in each choice. Tri, meaning 3, tetra meaning 4, penta meaning 5, and hepta meaning 7.
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Answer: If a line has four feet, a poem is written in tetrameter.

Step-by-step explanation: The terms "trimeter", "tetrameter", "pentameter" and "heptameter" are used to refer to the structure of a poem, more specifically to the number of feet that each line of a poem has. The term to talk about four feet is tetrameter, a word which contains the prefix "tetra-", whose meaning is "containing four". On the other hand, "trimeter" makes reference to three feet, "pentameter" refers to five feet and "heptameter" alludes to seven feet.

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