-
measured in
small groups of
syllables called feet. "
Iambic"
indicates that the type of foot used is the
iamb,
which in
English is
composed of an unstressed...
-
Iamb, iambus, or
iambic may
refer to: Look up
iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Iamb (poetry)
Choliamb Iambus (genre), or
iambic poetry Iambic...
- An
iamb (/ˈaɪæm/ EYE-am) or
iambus is a
metrical foot used in
various types of poetry.
Originally the term
referred to one of the feet of the quantitative...
- The
Iambic trimeter, in
classical Gr**** and
Latin poetry, is a
meter of
poetry consisting of
three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English...
-
Iambic tetrameter is a
poetic meter in
ancient Gr**** and
Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm,
iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each
metron being...
- of 14 syllables,
which are
usually made of
seven iambic feet, for
which the
style is also
called iambic heptameter. It is most
commonly found in English...
- vers libre. In
English verse, "alexandrine" is
typically used to mean "
iambic hexameter": × / × / × / ¦ × / × / × / (×) /=ictus, a
strong syllabic position;...
- is
marked by
placing the
stress mark ⟨ˈ⟩
before the
stressed syllable.
Iambic shortening or
brevis brevians is
vowel shortening that
occurs in
words of...
- three, or four
syllables in length. The most
common feet in
English are the
iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapaest. The foot
might be
compared to a bar, or a...
- key is
required for
iambic sending,
which also
requires an
iambic keyer. But any single- or dual-paddle key can be used non-
iambicly,
without squeezing...
