How To Use Iambus In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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Occasionally the term choriambus is used of English verses - a foot made up of two light syllables between two stressed ones.
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As has already been said, the iambus is the common foot of English verse.
English: Composition and Literature
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They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
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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
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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
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The metre throughout is iambic tetrameter, alternating with trimeter - in other words, lines of four iambuses alternate with lines of three.
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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
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Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach.
Famous Reviews
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Of the five kinds of feet illustrated here, the iambus is by far the most often used in English verse; the spondee is the rarest.
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The aural effect, then, is that the second and last feet are always heard as true iambuses, while the first and/or third may be spondees.
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Only we must be careful that by "iambus," in English poetry, we _meant_ an unstressed syllable, rather than a short syllable followed by a long one.
A Study of Poetry
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/'And YET' /is a complete 'iambus'; but 'anyet' is, like 'spirit', a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the 'arsis' or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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Thus, the three words marked above make a _choriambus_ -- u u, or perhaps a _pæon primus_ - u u u; a dactyl, by virtue of comic rapidity, being only equal to an iambus when distinctly pronounced.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
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It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters (including their choliambic variants, and with the subsequent addition of the epodes and the asynarteta).
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It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Thus the three words marked above make a 'choriambus' -- u u
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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Or young Apollo's; and yet, after this, &c. '/They would HAzard/' [1] -- furnishes an anapæst for an 'iambus'.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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For example, an iamb / iambus or iambic foot is represented by an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one.
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And yet the first makes a _iambus_, and the second a _trocheus_ ech sillable retayning still his former quantities.
The Arte of English Poesie
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That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable.
Miscellany
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He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable.
Miscellany
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Each pàda may be divided into three feet, the second always consisting of a choriambus, and the third of two iambics; while the first foot in the first pàda consists of a pyrrhic, in the second pàda of an anap æ st.
