How To Use iambus In A Sentence
- Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics.
- This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
- But by virtue of the last principle — the retardation of acceleration of time — we have the proceleusmatic foot u u u u, and the _dispondæus_ ----, not to mention the _choriambus_, the ionics, pæons, and epitrites. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
- Occasionally the term choriambus is used of English verses - a foot made up of two light syllables between two stressed ones.
- As has already been said, the iambus is the common foot of English verse. English: Composition and Literature
- They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
- In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
- In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
- The metre throughout is iambic tetrameter, alternating with trimeter - in other words, lines of four iambuses alternate with lines of three.
- But by virtue of the last principle — the retardation of acceleration of time — we have the proceleusmatic foot u u u u, and the _dispondæus_ ----, not to mention the _choriambus_, the ionics, pæons, and epitrites. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
