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Iambuses :: Iambuses (pl. ) of Iambu.

Tetrameter :: Tetrameter (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..

Choriambs :: Choriambs (pl. ) of Choriam.

Iambic :: Iambic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus..

Choriambic :: Choriambic (n.) A choriamb.

Diiambus :: Diiambus (n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).

Choliamb :: Choliamb (n.) Alt. of Choliambi.

Iambi :: Iambi (pl. ) of Iambu.

Iamb :: Iamb (n.) An iambus or iambic.

Glyconic :: Glyconic (a.) Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry..

Alcaic :: Alcaic (n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls..

Measure :: Measure (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..

Iambically :: Iambically (adv.) In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.

Scazon :: Scazon (n.) A choliamb.

Iambic :: Iambic (a.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot..

Diiamb :: Diiamb (n.) A diiambus.

Iambic :: Iambic (n.) A verse composed of iambic feet.

Iambic :: Iambic (n.) A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

Choliambic :: Choliambic (n.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last..

Iambic :: Iambic (n.) An iambic foot; an iambus.

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