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iambic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | verse, verse line |
iambic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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iambic pentameter.
Examples of iambic
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His dramatic works were written in the iambic senarius and trochaic septenarius.
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The Ali show was carried not by his iambic banter but the poetry of his fists.
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Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter.
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I love the rhythm, very much like the iambic pentameter of a Shakespeare play.
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Iambic metre took its name from being characteristic of iambi, not vice versa.
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The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
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Or the algorithm that creates iambic rhyming poetry from selective retweets.
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Sally Potter's Yes is poignant, profound and performed in perfect iambic pentameter.
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She has stripped the iambic pentameter down to shorter couplets, many of them rhyming.
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- Of or consisting of iambs; "iambic pentameter"
- A foot consisting of an unaccented and accented syllable. Shakespeare often uses iambic, for example the beginning of Hamlet's speech (the accented syllables are italicized), "To be or not to be. Listen for the accents in this line from Marlowe, "Come live with me and be my love. ...
- A poetic and musical foot consisting of two syllables, the first short, the second long
- The most common metrical foot in English poetry a foot of two syllables, with a weak stress followed by a strong. Refer to foot and meter.
- Adj. verse with meter and beat toastmaster
- A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in delay.
- A method of Morse Code keying. Holding both paddles at same time sends alternating dits and dahs (courtesy of VE3FFK).
