Definition of Choriambic. Meaning of Choriambic. Synonyms of Choriambic

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Definition of Choriambic

Choriambic
Choriambic Cho`ri*am"bic, a. [L. choriambicus, gr. ?.] Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n. A choriamb.

Meaning of Choriambic from wikipedia

- by hours. meter (poetry) Aeolic verse Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Choriambic Verse" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed...
- elements); choriambic expansion ("juxtaposition" of additional choriambs). For example, an Asclepiad may be analyzed as a glyconic with choriambic expansion...
- to have contained many poems in acephalous hipponacteans with double choriambic expansion, and possibly in other metres; the fifth book was metrically...
- English as the first, second, third and fourth vipulā, or the paeanic, choriambic, molossic, and trochaic vipulā respectively. In Sanskrit writers, they...
- and son strophe (526–45) and antistrophe (631–47) with iambic [.-] and choriambic [-..-] metra; spoken sections in anapestic tetrameter ending in anapestic...
- paraphrased here to suggest the original Aeolic verse rhythms, predominantly choriambic ( ¯˘˘¯, ¯˘˘¯ ), with some dactylic expansion (¯˘˘¯˘˘¯) and an iambic close...
- at least if we accept the ****ertion of Hephaestion (p. 31), that the choriambic hexameter, of which Philiscus claimed the invention, had been previously...
- the metre of the ruba'i (quatrain), in which the iambic | u – u – | and choriambic | – u u – | rhythms can be used as alternatives in the same poem. Persian...
- been chosen by the tragedians, as in the Marathonians of Lycophron. The choriambic hexameter verse was named after Philiscus, on account of his frequent...
- iamb "u –". The middle foot "– u u –" is a choriambus, as a so-called choriambic nucleus is a defining element of Aeolic verse. As in all classical verse...