Dimeter

In poetry, a dimeter is a metrical line of verse with two feet. The particular foot can vary.

Consider Thomas Hood's "Bridge of Sighs," in which the first line of a pair is of two feet, each composed of three syllables, and the subsequent line is of two feet, each of two syllables.


 * Take her up \\ tenderly,
 * Lift her \\ with care,
 * Fashioned so \\ slenderly,
 * Young and \\ so fair.

Also, the first line of William Wordsworth's "We Are Seven":


 * A simp \\ le Child