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Iambic

adjective

Of or consisting of iambs.

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"Iambic" Quotes from Famous Books

... sciolist and simpleton, 'knowing many things, but knowing them all badly'. It is unfortunately impossible to trace the plan of the poem, which presumably detailed the adventures of this unheroic character: the metre used was a curious mixture of hexametric and iambic lines. The date of such a work cannot be high: Croiset thinks it may belong to the period of Archilochus (c. 650 B.C.), but it may well be ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... translation in imitative measures, with the single exception of Grein's (which has made its appeal as a scholarly work and not as a piece of literature), has ever passed into a second edition; while versions couched in iambic lines or Nibelungen meters have ...

— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker

... divided into ten cantos, containing one thousand one hundred and two stanzas. Its metre is the heroic iambic, in rhymed ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... 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 complaisance of ...

— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny

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