Definition of Iambus. Meaning of Iambus. Synonyms of Iambus

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Definition of Iambus

Iambus
Iambus I*am"bus, n.; pl. L. Iambi, E. Iambuses. [L. iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

Meaning of Iambus from wikipedia

- surviving poetry. Possibly he became involved in iambus via the cult of Dionysus. This cult's ****ociation with iambus seems to be indicated etymologically by the...
- Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to: Look up iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iamb (poetry) Choliamb Iambus (genre), or iambic poetry Iambic trimeter...
- elegies and iambics. The Gr****s themselves did not include elegies nor iambus within melic poetry, since they had different metres and different musical...
- 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...
- should bite the pilot on the shin —fragment 28 Hipponax composed within the iambus tradition which, in the work of Archilochus, a hundred years earlier, appears...
- elegy and iambus (ἴαμβος) – elegy aimed at some degree of decorum, since it emplo**** the stately hexameter of epic, whereas the term 'iambus', as used...
- "lyric poetry" in modern criticism, are excluded—namely, the elegy and iambus which were performed with flutes. The Nine Lyric Poets are traditionally...
- Masnavi (مثنوی): a poem written in couplets in bacchic tetrameter with an iambus for last foot. The topic is often romance. Mir Taqi Mir and Sauda wrote...
- original on 15 April 2014. Theognis (1931) [6th century BCE]. Elegy and Iambu with an English Translation by J.M. Edmonds. Translated by Edmonds, J.M...
- quotation of the text transmitted by the papyrus. For example, Callimachus Iambus 1.2 reads: ἐκ τῶν ὅκου βοῦν κολλύ⸤βου π⸥ιπρήσκουσιν. A hole in the papyrus...