iambic
pronunciation
How to pronounce iambic in British English:
UK [aɪˈæmbɪk]
How to pronounce iambic in American English:
US [aɪˈæmbɪk]
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- Noun:
- a verse line consisting of iambs
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- Adjective:
- of or consisting of iambs
Word Origin
- iambic
- 1570s (n.); 1580s (adj.), from Latin iambicus, from Greek iambikos, from iambos "metrical foot of one unaccented followed by one accented syllable," from iaptein "to assail" (in words), literally "to put forth." The meter of invective and lampoon in classical Greek from the time it was used for such by Archilochos, 7c. B.C.E.
Example
- 1. Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call , and what milton would have called , blank verse .
- 2. Reading the social function of the tang and song iambic verses from the angle of " the popular songs "
- 3. Of the kinds of words we have enumerated it may be observed that compounds are most in place in the dithyramb , strange words in heroic , and metaphors in iambic poetry .
- 4. Some people have said there 's a relationship between poetic meter and the fall of your foot and possibly your heartbeat might be thought of as an iambic beat when it 's amplified by walking .