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Iambic

adjective
1.
Of or consisting of iambs.





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"Iambic" Quotes from Famous Books



... library of the Jesuits college at Paris. "One of the most precious pieces, and which alone would have been sufficient to give value to this manuscript, is the entire translation of Euripides's piece, entitled Supplicantes, added at the end of the volume by way of desert: the whole is in excellent Iambic verses: we would cite some part, if we had not already trespassed too far on the ...
— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny
... 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 brachycatalectic, you had better ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various


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


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