Talk:triskaidecameter

RFV discussion: April–July 2014
If anyone wanted to talk about a 13-foot meter, this would be the logical name for it- but, judging from Google Groups and Google Books, I doubt anyone actually uses it. Even Google search yields only 17 hits, of which 16 are dictionaries. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:43, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 13-foot meter? That does not seem right. — Keφr 05:26, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

$ units meter foot * 3.2808399	/ 0.3048
 * No, "meter" (or "metre") as in music and poetry (senses 5 and 6). We have tetrameter,  pentameter and hexameter, but I've still never heard of triskaidecameter used of a thirteen-foot or thirteen-beat meter.  Nothing beyond octameter seems to be used.  For decameter (the poetic sense of "a verse consisting of ten metrical feet"), the OED calls it "a nonce word" (with just one cite).    D b f  i  r  s   08:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Cf. and. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 17:09, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Failed. — Ungoliant (falai) 00:40, 14 July 2014 (UTC)