Tetrameter

A line of verse with four feet is known as tetrameter (Greek tetra, "four"). Tetrameter is second in popularity only to pentameter in English. Alternating lines of tetrameter and trimeter make up ballad stanza.

From the Guide to Literary Terms by Jack Lynch.
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