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Definition of iambic in English: iambicadjective ʌɪˈambɪkaɪˈæmbɪk Prosody Of or using iambuses. the epilogue is written in the finest iambic verse Example sentencesExamples - Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.
- This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.
- If you want to run all your editorials in purple or run the type sideways, or give voice to all your opinions in iambic hexameter, knock yourself out.
- An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
- He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden.
- I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet.
- In poetic terms I used to step out a good iambic metre, lively and heroic.
- The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so.
- Even students with a strong background in form tend to be familiar only with iambic meter.
- In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter.
- Iambic verse he thought potentially monotonous.
- That particular line-length is easy to swallow, while its iambic rocking gives a steady rhythmical pleasure to listeners.
- Both poems tend strongly toward an iambic rhythm.
- The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire.
- The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.
noun ʌɪˈambɪkaɪˈæmbɪk 1Iambic verse as a genre. Example sentencesExamples - Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
- You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents.
- It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle.
- These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic.
- While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics.
- A drunk, a brawler, a pathetic lover, Hipponax invented the ‘limping iambic, also known as the scazon.’
- 1.1iambics Iambic verse.
Example sentencesExamples - Halfway through part 2, the three-line stanzas with their fairly regular iambics are interrupted, and quite literally torn apart.
- She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
- There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics.
- I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics.
- ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
Origin Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus). Definition of iambic in US English: iambicadjectiveaɪˈæmbɪkīˈambik Prosody Of or using iambs. Example sentencesExamples - This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.
- I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet.
- Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.
- Iambic verse he thought potentially monotonous.
- The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so.
- Both poems tend strongly toward an iambic rhythm.
- If you want to run all your editorials in purple or run the type sideways, or give voice to all your opinions in iambic hexameter, knock yourself out.
- In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter.
- The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.
- In poetic terms I used to step out a good iambic metre, lively and heroic.
- He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden.
- An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
- The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire.
- Even students with a strong background in form tend to be familiar only with iambic meter.
- That particular line-length is easy to swallow, while its iambic rocking gives a steady rhythmical pleasure to listeners.
nounaɪˈæmbɪkīˈambik 1Iambic verse as a genre. Example sentencesExamples - It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle.
- A drunk, a brawler, a pathetic lover, Hipponax invented the ‘limping iambic, also known as the scazon.’
- You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents.
- These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic.
- While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics.
- Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
- 1.1iambics Iambic verse.
Example sentencesExamples - I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics.
- She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
- Halfway through part 2, the three-line stanzas with their fairly regular iambics are interrupted, and quite literally torn apart.
- There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics.
- ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
Origin Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus). |