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Examples of dimeter verses
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade (excerpt)
Highlighting the accents and feet of the first two verses:
HALF a league, | HALF a league
HALF a league | ONward
The first verse would be in dactylic dimeter, while the second, dactylic dimeter catalectic.
In other cultures
In classical Greek poetry, the dimeter consists of not two, but four feet when the feet used was disyllabic, so an iambic dimeter would be a verse of four iambs.1
