iambus
Americannoun
plural
iambi, iambusesEtymology
Origin of iambus
1580–90; < Latin < Greek íambos
Example Sentences
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“Thĕy woŭld hāzard”—furnishes an anapæst for an iambus.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
"Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
The choriambi are never used alone, but are usually preceded by a spondee and followed by an iambus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
In the fourth place, it may contain some other foot than the regular iambus.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
In a lonely hollow walk, overgrown with sting-nettles he scanned the deadly verses on his fingers, until the murderous iambus flowed evenly upon its four feet without a halting choliambus.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
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