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Iambic   Listen
adjective
Iambic  adj.  
1.
(Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
2.
Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.





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"Iambic" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Romans have preferred the iambic to the heroic verse in their tragedies; not only because the first has a kind of dignity better adapted to the stage, but, whilst it approaches nearer to prose, retains sufficiently the air of poetry to please the ear; and yet has too little of it to put the ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin
... Semi-sentimental theories as to the relations of the sexes, the dangers of indiscriminate education, the corruptions of wretchedness and poverty in large towns, the neglect of literature and classical learning, and the grievances of scholarly refinement in a world in which Greek iambic and Latin hexameter count for nothing,—such form the staple of his theses and tirades! His approximation at times to the confines of French realistic art is of the most accidental or incidental kind. For ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
... met with by accident not long ago in the Correspondant, a French review which not a dozen English people, I suppose, look at. The writer is praising Shakespeare's prose. With Shakespeare, he says, "prose comes in whenever the subject, being more familiar, is unsuited to the majestic English iambic." And he goes on: "Shakespeare is the king of poetic rhythm and style, as well as the king of the realm of thought: along with his dazzling prose, Shakespeare has succeeded in giving us the most varied, the most harmonious verse which has ever sounded upon the human ear since the verse of ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... placed on the right side the following iambic verse was curiously engraven in ancient ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... eighty-two in the Rudens, and to one hundred and fifty-two in the Amphitruo. In this way it becomes a short realistic story of every-day people, involving frequently a love intrigue, and told in the iambic senarius, the simplest form of verse. Following it is the more extended narrative of the comedy itself, with its incidents and dialogue. This combination of the condensed narrative in the story form, presented usually as a monologue in simple verse, and the ...
— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott


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