"Iambic" is a word in ENGLISH
Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or
of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written
in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic
verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
A verse composed of iambic feet.
An iambic foot; an iambus.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, …
Read the complete definitionConsisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of …
Read the complete definitionThe coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
Read the complete definitionA verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in …
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