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pentameter refers to five
iambs in a row (as above), in practice,
poets vary
their iambic pentameter a
great deal,
while maintaining the
iamb as the most common...
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Iamb, iambus, or
iambic may
refer to: Look up
iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Iamb (poetry)
Choliamb Iambus (genre), or
iambic poetry Iambic...
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comprising six
iambs—as one
iambic metrum consisted of two
iambs. In
English accentual-syllabic verse,
iambic trimeter is a line
comprising three iambs. Less common...
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metron being of the form | x – u – |,
consisting of a
spondee and an
iamb, or two
iambs.
There usually is a
break in the
centre of the line, thus the whole...
- English, German, and
other languages, however, the
iambic trimeter is a
meter consisting of
three iambs (disyllabic
units with
stress on the
second syllable)...
- from Yeats's The
Wanderings of
Oisin (1889). He inters****s
anapests and
iambs,
using six-foot
lines (rather than four feet as above).
Since the anapaest...
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Iambus or
iambic poetry was a
genre of
ancient Gr****
poetry that
included but was not
restricted to the
iambic meter and
whose origins modern scholars...
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tetrameter (four feet) and
trimeter (three feet). However, the feet need not be
iambs (with one
unstressed and one
stressed syllable): the
number of unstressed...
- 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...
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Choliambic verse (Ancient Gr****: χωλίαμβος), also
known as
limping iambs or
scazons or
halting iambic, is a form of
meter in poetry. It is
found in both Gr**** and...
