iambic
/ʌɪˈambɪk
/adjective Prosody
Of or using iambuses: the epilogue is written in the finest iambic verse...
- I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet.
- The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.
- Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.
noun
1Iambic verse as a genre.Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic....
- These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic.
- You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents.
1.1 (iambics) Iambic verse.She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets....
- ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.
- There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus).