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Iambic

noun
1.
A verse line consisting of iambs.





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"Iambic" Quotes from Famous Books



... for my prologue. I am not going to change my caesuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... our surprise: and my friend gave his definition and notion of harmonious verse, that it consisted, (the English iambic blank verse above all,) in the apt arrangement of pauses and cadences, and the ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


Words linked to "Iambic" :   verse, prosody, verse line, metrics, iamb


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