dimeter

1. A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet.
2. A line of verse consisting of two measures of two feet each, especially one in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter in classical prosody.

Origin:

Origin: Late Latin dimeter, dimetrus, having two verses

Origin: , from Greek dimetros

Origin: : di-, two; see di-¹

Origin: + metron, meter; see meter¹