How To Use iambus In A Sentence
- Only we must be careful that by "iambus," in English poetry, we _meant_ an unstressed syllable, rather than a short syllable followed by a long one. A Study of Poetry
- Each pàda may be divided into three feet, the second always consisting of a choriambus, and the third of two iambics; while the first foot in the first pàda consists of a pyrrhic, in the second pàda of an anap æ st.
- That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable. Miscellany
- He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee. The Last Chronicle of Barset
- That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable. Miscellany
- And yet the first makes a _iambus_, and the second a _trocheus_ ech sillable retayning still his former quantities. The Arte of English Poesie
- For example, an iamb / iambus or iambic foot is represented by an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one.
- Or young Apollo's; and yet, after this, &c. '/They would HAzard/' [1] -- furnishes an anapæst for an 'iambus'. Literary Remains, Volume 2
- Thus the three words marked above make a 'choriambus' -- u u Literary Remains, Volume 2
- It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
