Use the chart above to determine the meter and line length of the word or phrase. teeter totter
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The phrase "teeter totter" is a trochaic dimeter.
Explanation:
A trochee (adj. "trochaic") is a metrical foot made of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Here, the uppercase syllables are stressed, the lowercase is unstressed.
TEE ter / TOT ter
Now we count how many feet (trochees) are in the phrase. Teeter totter has two feet, making it a dimeter.