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Of a metrical foot
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iambic
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Word definitions for iambic in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context prosody English) Consisting of iambs or characterized by their predominance n. (context prosody English) An iamb; A line or group of lines of iambs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iambic \I*am"bic\, a. [L. iambicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. iambique.] (Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot. Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s (n.); 1580s (adj.), from Latin iambicus , from Greek iambikos , from iambos "metrical foot of one unaccented followed by one accented syllable," from iaptein "to assail" (in words), literally "to put forth." The meter of invective and lampoon in classical ...
Usage examples of iambic.
He disdained even standard versification--he wrote with unusual scansions, strange metrics--the harmonies of octameter catalectic, being more rarified, seemed to rise to the lofty ear of God more than could humble iambic pentameter, that endless trudge, trudge, trudge across the surface of the terrestrial globe.
Alcaic, also in tetrameter, consists of two dactylic feet followed by two iambic feet.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
This dictates their form, as verse, in this case dactylic hexameter: the stichic, or line-by-line, verse form as common to Greek and Latin epic as iambic pentameter is to English.
As to versification, Lanier uses almost all the types of verse -- iambic, trochaic, blank, the sonnet, etc.
I love to see English poetry move to many measures, to many numbers, but chiefly with the simple iambic and the simple trochaic foot.
Consequently, the classification of verse as iambic, anapestic, trochaic, etc.
Iambic pentameter was a symmetrical meter based on the sacred Illuminati numbers of 5 and 2!
A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.
He heard the rhythms of iambic pentameter and chanting, Hieros Gamos and sacred rites, resonating with the rumble of the jet.
Gippius spat out a line of Pushkin to demonstrate the false spondee in iambic verse, his outworn prosodic terms failed to arouse the nascent poet in his class.
For instance, in the view of some critics, literary realism carries with it an implicit validation of conservative social structures: for others, the formal and metrical intricacies of the sonnet and the iambic pentameter are a counterpart of social stability, decorum, and order.
He had written poetry, too, galloping iambics in the fashionable mode, and excursions in the vernacular after the manner of Burns.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
So Babygirl tossed her shimmering cinnamon curls and prettily pouted, revealed her dazzling white smile, in a breathy sing-song she recited the sweet iambic verse she had composed for this very occasion.