Definition of iambic in English:

iambic

adjective ʌɪˈambɪkaɪˈæmbɪk

Prosody

Of or using iambuses.
〔诗韵〕短长格的，抑扬格的
the epilogue is written in the finest iambic verse
Example sentencesExamples
- Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.
- This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.
- If you want to run all your editorials in purple or run the type sideways, or give voice to all your opinions in iambic hexameter, knock yourself out.
- An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
- He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden.
- I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet.
- In poetic terms I used to step out a good iambic metre, lively and heroic.
- The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so.
- Even students with a strong background in form tend to be familiar only with iambic meter.
- In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter.
- Iambic verse he thought potentially monotonous.
- That particular line-length is easy to swallow, while its iambic rocking gives a steady rhythmical pleasure to listeners.
- Both poems tend strongly toward an iambic rhythm.
- The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire.
- The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.

noun ʌɪˈambɪkaɪˈæmbɪk

1Iambic verse as a genre.
Example sentencesExamples
- Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
- You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents.
- It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle.
- These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic.
- While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics.
- A drunk, a brawler, a pathetic lover, Hipponax invented the ‘limping iambic, also known as the scazon.’
1. 1.1iambics Iambic verse.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Halfway through part 2, the three-line stanzas with their fairly regular iambics are interrupted, and quite literally torn apart.
  She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
  There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics.
  I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics.
  ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus).

Rhymes

choriambic, dithyrambic

Definition of iambic in US English:

iambic

adjectiveaɪˈæmbɪkīˈambik

Prosody

Of or using iambs.
〔诗韵〕短长格的，抑扬格的
iambic pentameters
五步抑扬格。
Example sentencesExamples
- This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals.
- I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet.
- Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.
- Iambic verse he thought potentially monotonous.
- The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so.
- Both poems tend strongly toward an iambic rhythm.
- If you want to run all your editorials in purple or run the type sideways, or give voice to all your opinions in iambic hexameter, knock yourself out.
- In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter.
- The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.
- In poetic terms I used to step out a good iambic metre, lively and heroic.
- He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden.
- An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
- The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire.
- Even students with a strong background in form tend to be familiar only with iambic meter.
- That particular line-length is easy to swallow, while its iambic rocking gives a steady rhythmical pleasure to listeners.

nounaɪˈæmbɪkīˈambik

1Iambic verse as a genre.
Example sentencesExamples
- It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle.
- A drunk, a brawler, a pathetic lover, Hipponax invented the ‘limping iambic, also known as the scazon.’
- You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents.
- These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic.
- While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics.
- Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
1. 1.1iambics Iambic verse.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics.
  She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
  Halfway through part 2, the three-line stanzas with their fairly regular iambics are interrupted, and quite literally torn apart.
  There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics.
  ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus).

词汇	iambic
释义	Definition of iambic in English: iambic adjective ʌɪˈambɪkaɪˈæmbɪk Prosody Of or using iambuses. 〔诗韵〕短长格的，抑扬格的 the epilogue is written in the finest iambic verse Example sentencesExamples Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born. This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals. If you want to run all your editorials in purple or run the type sideways, or give voice to all your opinions in iambic hexameter, knock yourself out. An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter. He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden. I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet. In poetic terms I used to step out a good iambic metre, lively and heroic. The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so. Even students with a strong background in form tend to be familiar only with iambic meter. In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter. Iambic verse he thought potentially monotonous. That particular line-length is easy to swallow, while its iambic rocking gives a steady rhythmical pleasure to listeners. Both poems tend strongly toward an iambic rhythm. The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire. The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter. noun ʌɪˈambɪkaɪˈæmbɪk 1Iambic verse as a genre. Example sentencesExamples Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic. You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents. It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle. These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic. While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics. A drunk, a brawler, a pathetic lover, Hipponax invented the ‘limping iambic, also known as the scazon.’ 1.1iambics Iambic verse. Example sentencesExamples Halfway through part 2, the three-line stanzas with their fairly regular iambics are interrupted, and quite literally torn apart. She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets. There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics. I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics. ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt. Origin Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus). Rhymes choriambic, dithyrambic Definition of iambic in US English: iambic adjectiveaɪˈæmbɪkīˈambik Prosody Of or using iambs. 〔诗韵〕短长格的，抑扬格的 iambic pentameters 五步抑扬格。 Example sentencesExamples This probably refers to the anapaestic and iambic chants which accompanied armed dances and processions at certain Spartan festivals. I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet. Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born. Iambic verse he thought potentially monotonous. The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so. Both poems tend strongly toward an iambic rhythm. If you want to run all your editorials in purple or run the type sideways, or give voice to all your opinions in iambic hexameter, knock yourself out. In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter. The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter. In poetic terms I used to step out a good iambic metre, lively and heroic. He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden. An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter. The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire. Even students with a strong background in form tend to be familiar only with iambic meter. That particular line-length is easy to swallow, while its iambic rocking gives a steady rhythmical pleasure to listeners. nounaɪˈæmbɪkīˈambik 1Iambic verse as a genre. Example sentencesExamples It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle. A drunk, a brawler, a pathetic lover, Hipponax invented the ‘limping iambic, also known as the scazon.’ You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents. These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic. While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics. Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic. 1.1iambics Iambic verse. Example sentencesExamples I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics. She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets. Halfway through part 2, the three-line stanzas with their fairly regular iambics are interrupted, and quite literally torn apart. There is often a meandering discursivity in the rhythm and content of Prynne's fractured iambics. ‘The Beautiful Changes’ consists of three six-line stanzas in loose iambics with an anapestic lilt. Origin Mid 16th century: from French iambique, via late Latin from Greek iambikos, from iambos (see iambus).
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