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Topics referred to by the same term
trimeter Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter, or the alexandrine Iambic heptameter, or the fourteener Iamb (band) Iambic key/keyer Iambic Productions
Iamb
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
Iambic pentameter (/aɪˌæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtər/ eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term
Iambic_pentameter
Metrical foot
An iamb (/ˈaɪæm/ EYE-am) or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative
Iamb_(poetry)
Line consisting of four iambic feet
and Latin, a line of iambic tetrameter consists of four metra two feet in length, consisting of a spondee and an iamb, or two iambs: | x – u – |. There
Iambic_tetrameter
Metrical foot
reverse of an iamb. Thus the Latin word íbī, 'there', because of its short-long rhythm, in Latin metrical studies is considered to be an iamb, but since
Trochee
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
three, or four syllables in length. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapaest. The foot might be compared to a bar, or a
Metrical_foot
U.S. development fund post invasion of Iraq
International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) was created in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003). IAMB is an independent oversight body for
Development_Fund_for_Iraq
Meter of poetry
The Iambic trimeter, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English
Iambic_trimeter
Metrical foot with two long (or accented) syllables
last foot, "to throw", is a true iamb. The final foot of the second line "move slow" is another spondee replacing an iamb. John Masefield also uses spondees
Spondee
Iamb is a band from the Central Coast of California. While it began as a solo recording project by frontman Ross Major, Iamb now performs with various
Iamb_(band)
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
in English, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, English poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter. There are numerous examples
Hexameter
Poetic device; use of an alien metric foot
instance in an iambic line of "da DUM", a trochaic substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da". In a line of verse that normally employs iambic meter, trochaic
Substitution_(poetry)
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
qualitative metre, with stressed syllables coming at regular intervals (e.g. in iambic pentameters, usually every even-numbered syllable). Many Romance languages
Metre_(poetry)
2003–2004 transitional US-led government of Iraq
needed] The IAMB had serious concerns over the CPA's lack of transparency and lack of adequate financial controls, which were never resolved. The IAMB still
Coalition Provisional Authority
Coalition_Provisional_Authority
Genre of ancient Greek poetry
Iambus, or iambic poetry, was a genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars
Iambus_(genre)
Metrical foot
substitutions in iambic verse. In strict iambic pentameter, anapaests are rare, but they are found with some frequency in freer versions of the iambic line, such
Anapaest
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
enabling a strict iambic rhythm. Other lengths of iambic lines are found in Roman comedy, such as iambic octonarius (16 elements) and the iambic quaternarius
Latin_prosody
Poetic line consisting of 14 syllables
of 14 syllables, which are usually made of seven iambic feet, for which the style is also called iambic heptameter. It is most commonly found in English
Fourteener_(poetry)
Theory and practice of versification
the last foot of the line is always an iamb: | .... u – |. As an example of the comic version of the iambic trimeter, here are the opening lines of Aristophanes'
Greek_prosody
Metrical foot
any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition. In other words, a poetic line might have two iambs and two trochees,
Cretic
unstressed. In an trochaic-or-iambic pair, each word can be either a trochee (stressed on the first syllable) or an iamb (stressed on the second syllable)
List of closed pairs of English rhyming words
List_of_closed_pairs_of_English_rhyming_words
resolution 1483. the CPA was obliged to cooperate with the oversight of the IAMB. The IAMB was composed of senior representatives from the United Nations, the
International Advisory and Monitoring Board
International_Advisory_and_Monitoring_Board
Line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables
vers libre. In English verse, "alexandrine" is typically used to mean "iambic hexameter": × / × / × / ¦ × / × / × / (×) /=ictus, a strong syllabic position;
Alexandrine
long-short-short-long (— ‿ ‿ —), that is, a trochee alternating with an iamb. Choriambs are one of the two basic metra that do not occur in spoken verse
Choriamb
Metrical foot
that the previous lines in the stanza are constructed predominantly in iambic heptameter – a common form for ballad stanza – it is more likely that the
Molossus_(poetry)
1842 poem by Robert Browning
Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet). In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the
My_Last_Duchess
Metrical foot
consists of three short syllables occupying a foot, replacing either an iamb (u –) or a trochee (– u). In accentual-syllabic verse (such as formal English
Tribrach_(poetry)
Metres used in Plautus and Terence
common are iambic senarii and trochaic septenarii. As far as is known, iambic senarii were spoken without music; trochaic septenarii (and also iambic septenarii
Metres_of_Roman_comedy
Verse of the classic meter
originally iambic metre. Thus, by substitution of a trochee for an iamb in the 3rd and 4th syllables, but keeping the iambic ending, an original iambic dimeter
Glyconic
is marked by placing the stress mark ⟨ˈ⟩ before the stressed syllable. Iambic shortening or brevis brevians is vowel shortening that occurs in words of
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin_phonology_and_orthography
Golden line Iambic meter: any meter based on the iamb as its primary rhythmic unit. Alexandrine (iambic hexameter): a 12-syllable iambic line adapted
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
American diplomat (born 1941)
in a final press release before the CPA's authority expired, the IAMB stated: The IAMB was also informed by the CPA that contrary to earlier representations
Paul_Bremer
Repeating 3 to 6-syllable section of a poetic metre
up to two other elements which can be short, anceps or biceps. Thus an iambic metron is x – ᴗ – (where "x" represents an anceps element), a trochaic metron
Metron_(poetry)
Poetic metre of five feet
1300s. The most common foot is the iamb, resulting in iambic pentameter. Most English sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. It is also the meter used
Pentameter
Ancient Greek poet
6th century BCE), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, was an Ancient Greek iambic poet who composed verses depicting the vulgar side of life in Ionian society
Hipponax
Poetic meter of four metrical feet
blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works" (Eminem, "The Way I Am") Iambic tetrameter: "Because I could not stop for Death" (Emily Dickinson, eponymous
Tetrameter
Electrical switch used to transmit text messages in Morse code
being "iambic", although this is commonly done in marketing. A dual paddle key is required for iambic sending, which also requires an iambic keyer. But
Telegraph_key
Verse form created by Edmund Spenser
contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines
Spenserian_stanza
Poetic line of four trochaic feet
Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Trochaic_tetrameter
Ancient Roman play by Terence
lines the proportions are as follows: iambic senarii: 54% (this metre was unaccompanied) In this play, iambic senarii are used for setting the scene
Heauton_Timorumenos
Type of meter (poetry)
Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Trimeter
Poetic meter with eight trochaic metrical feet per line
Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Trochaic_octameter
Body of literary work by Roman poet Catullus from 62 to 54 BC
syllables, as the above. Some start with an iamb (ᴗ –), or a trochee (– ᴗ). The following starts with an iamb (ᴗ –): ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ᴗ – – malest, Cornificī
Poetry_of_Catullus
Representation of poetic meter
marking stress is not the same as marking meter. A perfectly regular line of iambic pentameter may have anywhere from 2 to 9 stresses, but it is still felt
Scansion
1915 poem by Robert Frost
The meter is iambic tetrameter, with each line having four two-syllable feet, though in almost every line, in different positions, an iamb is replaced
The_Road_Not_Taken
British classicist, author, translator, and professor (born 1971)
capture what she calls the 'nimble gallop' of his verse. She writes in iambic pentameter, impressively limiting herself to the same number of lines as
Emily_Wilson_(classicist)
Ode by Thomas Gray
ABABCCDEED rhyme sceme, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Ode_on_a_Distant_Prospect_of_Eton_College
Metrical foot
amphibrachic line, in both Russian and English, is to end the line with an iamb, as Thomas Hardy does in "The Ruined Maid" (1901): "Oh did n't / you know
Amphibrach
Topics referred to by the same term
nickname of Tamworth Football Club All pages with titles beginning with Lamb Iamb (disambiguation) Lamb of God (disambiguation) Lahm, a surname Lam (disambiguation)
Lamb
Aria from W. A. Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
of a quatrain in iambic pentameter (unusual for this opera which is mostly in iambic tetrameter), followed by a quatrain in iambic trimeter, then a final
Queen_of_the_Night_aria
Feature of poetic metre
poetry, for example in the metre of the ruba'i (quatrain), in which the iambic | u – u – | and choriambic | – u u – | rhythms can be used as alternatives
Anaclasis_(poetry)
Ancient Greek lyric poet (c. 680 – c. 645 BC)
(/ɑːrˈkɪləkəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος Arkhílokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was an iambic poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros. He is celebrated for
Archilochus
Form of literature
for example. Thus, "iambic pentameter" is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is the "iamb". This metric system
Poetry
2017 translation by Emily Wilson
its traditional dactylic hexameter by employing the traditional English iambic pentameter meter. Her translation uses simple syntax in modern English.
Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translation)
Form of poetry
poets) Saturnian. Poetic dramatic dialogue, whether in English iambic pentameter or Greek iambic trimeter, also tends to be stichic in nature. Look up stichic
Stichic
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
itself. Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed
William_Shakespeare
Four-line poetic verse, known as a quatrain
the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. Assonance
Ballad_stanza
Feature of Ancient Greek prosody
is a metrical law that applies to iambic trimeter, the main spoken metre of Greek tragedy. It does not apply to iambic trimeter in Greek comedy. It was
Porson's_law
Poetic stanza, rhyming ABABBCC
recent centuries. The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is A B A B B C C {\displaystyle \mathrm {ABABBCC}
Rhyme_royal
Feature of Latin and Greek poetic metre
dactylic hexameters and iambic trimeters. It can also be found in the centre of a line in some metres, before a dieresis (e.g. in the iambic octonarius). However
Brevis_in_longo
Form of literary device
poem written in a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. It typically adopts a xaxa, xbxb rhyme scheme
Poetic_device
German researcher
Applied Microbiology, and head of the Institute of Applied Microbiology (iAMB) at RWTH Aachen University. Blank coordinated the EU project ‘P4SB – From
Lars_Mathias_Blank
Poetry meters
septenarius) Iambic tetrameter catalectic (in Latin also known as Iambic septenarius) Choliambic (also known as Scazon), a variation on the Iambic trimeter
Greek_and_Latin_metre
Television company
Iambic Productions Limited is an independent television production company specializing in the fields of music, arts and drama founded by producer Chris
Iambic_Productions
Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Dimeter
Ancient Greek lyric poet (c. 630–c. 570 BC)
lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attributed to Sappho have survived, but
Sappho
Replacing long syllables with two shorts in poetry
often found in iambic and trochaic metres, and also in anapestic, dochmiac and sometimes in cretic, bacchiac, and ionic metres. In iambic and trochaic metres
Resolution_(metre)
1785 Scots-language poem by Robert Burns
{\displaystyle \mathrm {AAABAB} } , with iambic tetrameter A {\displaystyle \mathrm {A} } lines and iambic dimeter B {\displaystyle \mathrm {B} } lines
To_a_Mouse
Type of poetic metre
consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with
Common_metre
Chinese stock character analogous to a knight-errant
some justice." A metric translation of the original Chinese poem with one iamb per Chinese character reads as follows: A decade long I honed a single sword
Youxia
enriched Motto of the University of Chicago; often rendered in English as an iambic tetrameter, "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life
List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)
Rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter
epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer
Heroic_couplet
1986 novel by Vikram Seth
novel in verse composed of 590 fourteen-line Onegin stanzas written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the aBaBccDDeFFeGG pattern of
The_Golden_Gate_(Seth_novel)
book Notes on Prosody by author Vladimir Nabokov compares differences in iambic verse in the English and Russian languages, and highlights the effect of
Notes_on_Prosody
Ancient Roman play by Terence
are as follows: iambic senarii (ia6): 54% (this metre was unaccompanied) trochaic septenarii (tr7): 20% iambic octonarii (ia8): 14% iambic septenarii (ia7):
Eunuchus
Poem by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic
Sonnet_18
Poetic verse with ten syllables per line
(accentual verse), it is the equivalent of pentameter with iambs or trochees (particularly iambic pentameter). Medieval French heroic epics (the chansons
Decasyllable
Oxford awards for Greek or Latin
(New College) for comic iambic verse: Henry IV, Part II, Act 2, Sc. 2. 1895: Frank Lloyd Edwards (New College) for tragic iambic verse: Matthew Arnold's
Gaisford_Prize
1920 poem written by Robert Frost
narrows in the last two lines. The poem's meter is an irregular mix of iambic tetrameter and dimeter, and the rhyme scheme (which is ABA ABC BCB) suggests
Fire_and_Ice_(poem)
American actor and filmmaker (born 1956)
of poetry. It was very beautiful, impressionistic, like an edgy, modern iambic pentameter. Mel has a really good grasp of language, he's fantastic with
Mel_Gibson
Song
While the lines are often in iambs, some follow iambic pentameter, others iambic hexameter, and still others break from an iambic rhythm entirely. At the end
St. George and the Dragon (ballad)
St._George_and_the_Dragon_(ballad)
1914 poem by Robert Frost
does not strictly follow a particular form (instead consisting of mixed iambs), nor does it follow a standard rhyme scheme. After Apple-Picking My long
After_Apple-Picking
Collection of poems by Horace
Epodes (Latin: Epodi or Epodon liber; also called Iambi) are a collection of iambic poems written by the Roman poet Horace. They were published in 30 BC and
Epodes_(Horace)
Poem by William Shakespeare
divided into 265 stanzas of seven lines each. The meter of each line is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABBCC, a format known
The_Rape_of_Lucrece
Poetic form
Comedy, which he set in hendecasyllabic lines. In English, poets often use iambic pentameter. Terza rima is a challenging form for a poet, and it did not
Terza_rima
Poetry collection by Shel Silverstein
a simple rhythm, utilizing predominantly iambic tetrameter. This metrical structure consists of four iambs, each holding an unstressed syllable followed
Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends
Hymn to Dionysus,
Pelasgian, and literally means "Dreischritt", i. e., "three-step", compare iamb and dithyramb, but H. S. Versnel rejects this etymology and suggests instead
Thriambus
Comedy by Aristophanes
substitutions such as a tribrach (...) for an iamb (.-). Elements Lines Metres Summary Comments Prologue 1–229 iambic trimeter Dialogue setting the scene. conventional
The_Wasps
Form of literature, in verse
eight feet Iambic pentameter Example: Paradise Lost, by John Milton Dactylic hexameter Examples: Iliad, by Homer The Metamorphoses, by Ovid Iambic tetrameter
Outline_of_poetry
Language spoken in Colombia and Venezuela
that heavy syllables are always stressed. Both contrasting trochaic and iambic patterns are found on morphemes in nonfinal morphemes with more than two
Guahibo_language
Statue of the Greek god Helios
of these are, first, the Colossus of Helius, of which the author of the iambic verse says, "seven times ten cubits in height, the work of Chares the Lindian";
Colossus_of_Rhodes
1999 EP by Squarepusher
No. Title Length 1. "Iambic 5 Poetry" 5:31 2. "Fly Street" 4:52 3. "The Tide" 4:25 4. "Splask" 3:08 5. "Two Bass Hit (Dub)" 3:32 6. "Varkatope" 4:09 7
Budakhan_Mindphone
Poetic metre
LM, is a poetic metre consisting of four-line stanzas, or quatrains, in iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern ABAB. The term is also used in the
Long_metre
Ancient Roman play by Plautus
differentiated by changes of metre. The usual pattern is to begin each section with iambic senarii (which were spoken without music), then a scene of music in various
Mostellaria
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Choliambic verse (Ancient Greek: χωλίαμβος), also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic, is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Greek and
Choliamb
Form of poetry
three syllables. The third and fourth lines are usually anapaestic, or one iamb followed by one anapaest. The first, second and fifth are usually either
Limerick_(poetry)
Poem by John Keats
by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats wrote the
When_I_Have_Fears
Line of verse with just one metrical foot or dipody
Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic
Monometer
Historical quatrain
monosyllabic tetrameter, a dactylic tetrameter, a trochaic tetrameter, and an iambic tetrameter respectively. The poem has historically made use of assonant
Fee-fi-fo-fum
Plays of the English playwright
and poems in iambic pentameter. In some of his early works (like Romeo and Juliet), he even added punctuation at the end of these iambic pentameter lines
Shakespeare's_plays
IAMB
IAMB
IAMB
IAMB
Boy/Male
English American German Spanish Teutonic
From the pointed hill.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Indian, Tamil
One who Forgets
Female
Hebrew
(× ×„×¢Ö¸×”) Hebrew name NO'AH means "motion." In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Zelophehad.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Kind
Boy/Male
English
Gift
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Delicate; Belle; Beautiful
Boy/Male
African, American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, German, Latin
Fifth; Derived from Roman Clan Name; From the Place Owned by the Fifth Son
Girl/Female
Tamil
Kavi Naya | கவிநயாÂ
Good girl
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Fire
Girl/Female
Tamil
A star
IAMB
IAMB
IAMB
IAMB
IAMB
n.
A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
n.
An iambus or iambic.
a.
Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
n.
A verse composed of iambic feet.
a.
Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
a.
The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
n.
A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
n.
A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
n.
A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
n.
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.
a.
Iambic.
pl.
of Iambus
v. t.
To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.
n.
The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
adv.
In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
n.
An iambic foot; an iambus.
pl.
of Iambus
n.
A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
n.
A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).