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Iambic   Listen
noun
Iambic  n.  
1.
(Pros.)
(a)
An iambic foot; an iambus.
(b)
A verse composed of iambic feet. Note: The following couplet consists of iambic verses. "Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram."
2.
A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.





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"Iambic" Quotes from Famous Books



... was engaged in a lively conversation with two Samian Greeks: the celebrated worker in metals, sculptor and goldsmith Theodorus, and the Iambic poet Ibykus of Rhegium, who had left the court of Polykrates for a time in order to become acquainted with Egypt, and were bearers of presents to Amasis from their ruler. Close to the fire lay Philoinus of Sybaris, a corpulent man ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... imperfectly preserved, but more than 2000 verses are extant, and these give interesting pictures of contemporary German life. It is a metrical novel with a knight for hero. The selection is from M. Heyne's Rudlieb, 1897,—a translation in iambic pentameter. ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... he clung to the measures most approved in French poetry, especially to Alexandrines and Iambic tetrameters, and to their irregular association in a sort of ballad metre, which in England has been best handled by Robert Browning in his fine ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles


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