iambus
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of iambus
1580–90; < Latin < Greek íambos
Example Sentences
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It is almost wholly destitute of quantity, and the intonation which supplies that want is of such a kind that hardly any foot but the iambus is possible in it.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
In a lonely hollow walk, overgrown with sting-nettles he scanned the deadly verses on his fingers, until the murderous iambus flowed evenly upon its four feet without a halting choliambus.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
Never take an iambus for a Christian name.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
Archilochus made use of the iambus and the trochee, and organized them into the two forms of metre known as the iambic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
There are four regular feet in English verse, the iambus, the anapest, the trochee, and the dactyl.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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