three iambic feet. In ancient Greek poetry and Latin poetry, an iambic trimeter is a quantitative meter, in which a line consists of three iambic metra...

be found Shakespeare's Sonnets. A line of iambic pentameter comprises five consecutive iambs. Iambic trimeter is the metre of the spoken verses in Greek...

Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to: Look up iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iamb (poetry) Choliamb Iambus (genre) Iambic trimeter Iambic tetrameter...

The iambic dimeter ends with brevis in longo, the short syllable a in pectora becoming long by the addition of a pause. Here an iambic trimeter forms...

last foot of the line is always an iamb: | .... u – |. As an example of the comic version of the iambic trimeter, here are the opening lines of Aristophanes'...

feet, e.g. hendecasyllable. In some kinds of metre, such as the Greek iambic trimeter, two feet are combined into a larger unit called a metron (pl. metra)...

who wrote "lame trochaics" as well as "lame iambics". The basic structure is much like iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by...

Evening". The poem is written in the form of a lyric poem, with an iambic trimeter meter and AABBCCDD rhyme scheme. Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem...

Look up trimeter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In poetry, a trimeter (Greek for "three measure") is a metre of three metrical feet per line. Examples:...

metrical law that applies to iambic trimeter, the main spoken metre of Greek tragedy. It does not apply to iambic trimeter in Greek comedy. It was formulated...

the choral odes. For the metre, the spoken parts mainly use the iambic (iambic trimeter), described as the most natural by Aristotle, while the choral...

rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance...

famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets, John Milton in his Paradise Lost, and William Wordsworth in The Prelude. As lines in iambic pentameter...

the iambic distichs invented by Archilochus. Accordingly, the first ten of these epodes are composed in alternate verses of iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter...

anapestic tetrameter, though iambs are sometimes used to delineate inferior arguments; episodes – sections of dialogue in iambic trimeter, often in a succession...

consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each...

two pairs of a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances...

Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm, iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each metron being...

Iambus or iambic poetry was a genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars...

exception of the first line, the rhythm alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The poem employs alliteration, anaphora, simile, satire...

substitutions in iambic verse. In strict iambic pentameter, anapaests are rare, but they are found with some frequency in freer versions of the iambic line, such...

written in a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. It typically adopts a xaxa, xbxb rhyme scheme with...

first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. Assonance...

Saturnian. Poetic dramatic dialogue, whether in English iambic pentameter or Greek iambic trimeter, also tends to be stichic in nature. Look up stichic in...

common are iambic senarii and trochaic septenarii. As far as is known, iambic senarii were spoken without music; trochaic septenarii (and also iambic septenarii...

end). For example, the iambic tetrameter catalectic is as follows: x – ᴗ – | x – ᴗ – | x – ᴗ – | ᴗ – x Although the iambic trimeter has six feet, the ancient...

The hymnal stanza consists of alternating rhymes with the iambic trimeter and the iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. An example can be found...

of alternating lines of iambic (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambic trimeter (six syllables), known...

often found in iambic and trochaic meters, and also in anapestic, dochmiac and sometimes in cretic, bacchiac, and ionic meters. In iambic and trochaic meters...

Subject(s) fate, doom, seafaring, superstition Form Ballad Meter iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter Rhyme scheme abcb Publisher J. & A. Arch Publication date...