Iambic synonyms

ī-ăm'bĭk

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iambic-pentameter
A poetic meter consisting of a line with five feet in each of which the iamb is dominant.
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metrical-foot
The basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse
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hexameter (related)
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rhyme
A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
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versification
A metrical version, as of a story or prose work
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iamb
A metrical foot in quantitative verse composed of a short syllable followed by a long one.
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poetry (related)
A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium
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verse (related)
A poem.
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foot (related)
The definition of a foot is the end or last of something or 12 inches.
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meter (related)
The international standard unit of length, approximately equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
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antispastic
Relieving or preventing spasms, esp. of voluntary skeletal muscles
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prosodic
Of, or according to the principles of, prosody
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unrhymed (related)
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tetrameter (related)
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trimeter (related)
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anapestic (related)
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trochaic (related)
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trochee (related)
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dactylic (related)
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dimeter (related)
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rhyme-scheme (related)
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iambus
(Poetry) an iamb
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Iambic Sentence Examples

  • Each of these hymns has eight four-line stanzas and is written in strict iambic tetrameter.

  • Florus is important as being the first in order of a number of 2nd-century African writers who exercised a considerable influence on Latin literature, and also the first of the poetae neoterici or novelli (new-fashioned poets) of Hadrian's reign, whose special characteristic was the use of lighter and graceful metres (anapaestic and iambic dimeters), which had hitherto found little favour.

  • His greatest contribution to poetic art consisted in the perfection which he attained in the phalaecian, the pure iambic, and the scazon metres, and in the ease and grace with which he used the language of familiar intercourse, as distinct from that of the creative imagination, of the rostra, and of the schools, to give at once a lifelike and an artistic expression to his feelings.

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