iambus
Americannoun
plural
iambi, iambusesEtymology
Origin of iambus
1580–90; < Latin < Greek íambos
Example Sentences
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The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
I`n e-x tre-ame de` sire And yet the first makes a iambus, and the second a trocheus ech sillable retayning still his former quantities.
From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George
It will, no doubt, be considered ridiculous by the Fannii and Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach.
From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley
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.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
Choliamb, kō′li-amb, n. a variety of iambic trimeter, having a trochee for an iambus as the sixth foot.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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