| 单词 | iambic |
| 例句 | “Yes” “There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter, yes?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “But iambic trimeter is fairly common in Greek lyric, isn’t it?” said Julian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “It’s not iambic either. I don’t know if it’s anything metrical at all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One small gesture, a gentle turn of the wrist so that the palm of the hand — held at waist height — turns upward, answers an iambic figure in the music. Review: Mark Morris’s New Pastoral Says Less Than Its Music 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The classic rhythm of iambic pentameter, she told the Paris Review, “is as natural to me as breathing.” Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-winning poet who drew on women’s experiences, dies at 89 The idea was to broaden the company’s programming but also to adjust to a marketplace in which the appetite for show tunes exceeds that for iambic pentameter. Perspective | Sure Lancelot is dreamy, but ‘Camelot’ owes its success to a wistful audience 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The degree to which this expertise assists listeners, even those with ears somewhat accustomed to iambic pentameter, is immeasurable. Perspective | Who needs a director, anyway? A classical theater in Staunton, Va., lets the actors run the show, and it’s a hit. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z She repeatedly asked the actors to speak faster, to trust that the “heartbeat” of the iambic pentameter and the precision of the imagery, if articulated properly, will pull the audience along. A Voice Instructor for the Leads in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-09-12T16:20:05Z Janice asks it most directly, in iambic pentameter: “How can one cope when chaos permeates?” In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Flips the Bard: Tells one off in iambic pentameter. Style Invitational Week 1090: Talk undirty to us, in a poem with a ‘rude-sounding’ word “I don’t have any interest in the challenges of the iambic pentameter.” Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The cast members — and they’re marvelous, to a one — deliver the script’s stately speech with such easy fluency that you forget they’re speaking in iambic pentameter. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The iambic pentameter isn’t delivered with percussive éclat but spoken with conversational formality. Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The tempo increases again in the last four lines, where the pace of the iambic trimeter suggests that danger is now imminent. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z It's difficult to accommodate those in poetry; and is the writer aware of the more agreeable iambic pentameter in line nine: "they try and fail, and do not really try"? Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z The iambic pentameter, for example, or the crossword episode. ‘Inside No. 9’ Returns With More Cunning Puzzles 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z In fact, there is a striking quantity of alliteration stowed away in the whole poem's tidy, iambic portmanteau. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z When you have an audience embroiled in problems of governance — and since no one has thought to release the Mueller report in iambic pentameter — might as well pluck “Julius Caesar” off the shelf. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z About how to advise actors to deal with the Bard’s linguistic currency, iambic pentameter: “I really think Shakespeare’s most important word is at the end of his line,” he said. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z ISC’s iambic lab Monthlong series of special events and workshops gets underway with a reading of a new adaptation of Ibsen’s “The Pretenders.” L.A. theater openings, Jan. 22-29: 'Moby Dick' and more 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z What's more, this screen adaptation of Shakespeare is impeccably acted by the entire ensemble cast, all of whom handle the iambic pentameter with noticeable aplomb. Denzel Washington is commanding in Joel Coen's bloody, bold and resolute "Tragedy of Macbeth" 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z On a whim, Bhatnagar looked in the debug logs of Pentametron, a repository of tweets that had been discarded because they were close to iambic pentameter but not perfect. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z In place of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, Park writes in sharp, staccato rhythms, with short lines that drive through the scenes a few syllables at a time. Review: In ‘Peerless,’ Elite College Admissions Are Something Wicked 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Despite its tripping iambic step, evoking a country-dance in 3-4 time, the poem is unsettled. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z The play, written in characteristically supple iambic pentameter, has an unforgettable music of its own, a set of rhythmic surprises sprung in the opening spondee — “Who’s there?” — and developed in a thousand different ways. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “We’re taught that Shakespeare is a sacred thing, with the iambic pentameter and all that stuff,” he continued. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Val as Romeo sprinting to her with all the hope of youth, the whole contemporary routine was a flowing, pretty iambic pentameter come to life. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: NASCAR's Michael Waltrip sputters out 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Neither actor delivers the most mellifluous iambic pentameter you’ve ever heard, and nor should they: the lines roll eagerly, earnestly, blushingly off their tongues, like eighth-graders reading and writing poetry for the first time. Romeo + Juliet at 20: how Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z With few rhythmic exceptions, the sonnets adhere to a ten-syllable iambic line. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z In this case, the book is deliciously witty, bawdy and full of loopy appeal — and written mostly in skillfully wrought iambic pentameter yet. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Whatever window dressing an author might heap on top—iambic pentameter, swan feathers—the triangle demands that a choice be made, and, inevitably, that joy and sorrow will follow. Katia Bachko: Dance This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But most have preferred iambic pentameter, the default meter for English poets. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The show’s other performers deliver the iambic pentameter competently while signaling a character trait or two. A bold production of ‘Phaeton’ from Taffety Punk Theatre Company 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The result of their collaboration certainly rhymes, but it’s got more than iambic pentameter; together, the three stage a hip-hop-influenced version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z We are musing about the surprising linguistic affinities between Treknobabble and Shakespearean iambic pentameter – both of which Stewart is fluent in, having spent sizeable chunks of his five decades in acting immersed in them. Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z “What rap is for our culture, iambic pentameter was for the Elizabethans; it is heightening the speech of ordinary people.” American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z While insisting on the Sproggian 32 syllables in iambic meter, the Empress allowed real modern English along with the fake Middle, and for four longer lines as well as eight little ones. Style Invitational: Washington Post again seeks to mislead public! 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “King Charles III,” written in iambic pentameter by Mike Bartlett, imagines a future where the monarch subverts tradition and refuses to rubber-stamp the wishes of the elected government. 'King Charles III' to Reign on Broadway in October 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In one sequence, the music suddenly provides a series of pulsating iambs; but they’ve been sounding quite a few times before Ms. Bouder, hanging from Mr. Ramasar’s arms, finally matches them with iambic footwork. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z The iambic pentameter flows with the steady dignity of a great ship. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z His poems, written in “hyper-regular iambic meter,” investigate “the apocalyptic suffering created by a market economy.” Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z As I read, my rocker moves in easy, iambic rhythm with the waves. In coastal Maine, the perfect pace for self-quarantining 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z It unpacks the unitary executive theory, it features pillow talk in iambic pentameter. Adam McKay's "Vice": A sly, irreverent portrait of Dick Cheney's monstrous power 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z To start with the poetry: most of it is written in a relaxed version of iambic pentameter, punctuated here and there by more formal episodes, usually sonnets. The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z Gaga’s lyrics are not particularly complex, but they can be weirdly poetic, chanted, as they often are, in perfect iambic pentameter: “I want your ugly, I want your disease,” she announced. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps now to ensure the mannerism is not overdone and the voice remains conversational, the iambic pentameter is pared to 4 stresses: "To build a sacrificial fire." Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z "I'd get pulled up for mucking about with the iambic pentameter." Kerry Godliman: 'We're cracking up on stage for your entertainment' 2013-04-27T23:05:02Z He wrote in a smooth, carefully polished style, usually adhering to the traditional forms of English poetry, such as iambic pentameter, heroic couplets and rhyme. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z More than 600 of you keyed in rhymes, haiku, free verse, iambic pentameter ... you name it. Seattle Times Twitter poetry contest concludes 2010-05-01T00:19:00Z As a group, we were better at rhyme than rhythm, though we chased after the feet of a heavy iambic pentameter. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z "Maggie Thatcher" – two fierce trochees set against the gentler iambic pulse of Britain's postwar welfare state. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z It certainly adds a lift to rhythms that might otherwise seem drearily iambic. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z And he knows his way around iambic pentameter, having portrayed several Shakespearean heroes and antiheroes on stage and screen. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It's not demanded by the energy of the voice, it's demanded by the iambic metre. Poem of the week: Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 2011-07-25T10:59:41Z He coaxes us readers deep into weeds of Tessa’s research, rendering technical details about things like “limping iambic” poetic meter, not only graspable, but engrossing. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z In this week’s Walking Dead, Ezekiel – iambic pentameter enthusiast and self-proclaimed King of the, erm, Kingdom – definitely had that third kind of day. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z At the same time, its use here reminds the reader of other elegiac poems – Gray's Elegy, perhaps, also in iambic pentameter and rhymed ABAB. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z Until they can scan iambic pentameter or explain dramatic irony, my kids will have to keep their language G-rated. Mommy’s got a potty mouth 2013-06-03T00:30:00Z “It must be pretty depressing for actors who have played a lot of Shakespeare to hear me beginning on what is an iambic pentameter,” he said. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Members of the audience, sitting on the floor or leaning against the wall, nodded their heads to the iambic pentameter. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s just a matter of finding a strict form — it’s called iambic pentameter — to channel thought and feeling, and all successful art must find a useful marriage between form and content. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z Indeed, on occasion this time around one feels that the dictates of iambic pentameter are going to give way to a shout-out to Stanley’s beloved Stella. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z “It came out with this terrific poem written in iambic pentameter,” Preston recalled. AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z But LLMs have also managed to ace the bar exam, explain the Higgs boson in iambic pentameter, and make an attempt to break up their users’ marriage. How AI Knows Things No One Told It 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z When schoolchildren are taught to imitate the structure of a haiku or the short-long thrum of iambic pentameter, they are effectively learning to follow algorithmic constraints. Perspective | AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z This being so, Leithauser’s chapters cover such seemingly ho-hum subjects as iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, the stanza, enjambment, rhyming and wordplay. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Many other lines in this poem are also iambic or trochaic, yet the subject matter is troubled. Poem: Love Letter to a Dead Body 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Washington is no stranger to iambic pentameter, but his Macbeth is more piercing in his sighs than in his utterances. What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z There’s something about Shakespeare and the language that, as a Black performer, I naturally get: the rhythms, the scansion, the iambic pentameter. Why 'Macbeth' actor Corey Hawkins felt compelled to study the classics 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Much of the initial script’s Elizabethan iambic pentameter has been trimmed, while keeping the songs intact and leaving room for spontaneous actor-audience interactions. Pasadena Playhouse's 'Head Over Heels' questions pre-pandemic theater rules 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Her academic pedigree shows when she discusses Jefferson’s fascination with cadence, “which lilts along on iambic feet”; she invokes his little-known study of English prosody and “the importance of pauses to poetic language.” Review | Four presidents who put Virginia’s stamp on early America 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Nowhere is this poetic syncretism more evident than in the title poem, an honor song to the Kiowa warrior and chief laid forth in elegant iambic hexameter. Next week is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Mark the date with these 7 audiobooks by Indigenous authors 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “He’s not going to speak in iambic pentameter. ‘ Bravado or belligerent, it’s Joe Biden’s response to nearly everything: ‘C’mon, man!’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The construction of a billionaires’ principality in one of the most economically segregated cities on earth is of course the problem worth the angry iambic pentameter. In a Playground for the 1 Percent, an Arts Center for the Rest of Us 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z He often wrote in iambic pentameter, or close to it: Steve Earle’s Winsome Tribute to Guy Clark 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The main problem of “Head Over Heels” is easily diagnosed: The music of the Go-Go’s, though appropriately festive, isn’t a natural fit for a story that traffics in faux Elizabethan iambic pentameter. Review: 'Pretty Woman' and 'Head Over Heels' try oh-so-hard to revive beauty and the beat for Broadway 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Originally, his version didn’t use iambic pentameter, but he discovered that employing the verse made his lengthy script “shorter, cleaner and clearer”, he said. 'This play is full of firsts': behind the groundbreaking Go-Go's musical 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Ever the dignified performer, Lloyd recounted the baseball of his youth in a deep, iambic voice, spinning his stories slowly and dramatically, even as the stands convulsed with wild energy around him. 102 year-old-actor who watched Babe Ruth split his pants on a slide goes to first World Series game since 1926 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z It allows fine actors to speak in iambic pentameter, the mightiest of all metrical lines, which confers a sort of dignity on any character that speaks it. Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' puts Britain's royal family in a smart, dark Shakespearean frame 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z O’Neill added that he was inspired by Oscar Wilde to use iambic pentameter during narrated parts. Paul O'Neill created an over-the-top legacy with Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z At a time when Sexton was giving readings accompanied by a rock band, Bishop was assigning her class exercises in iambic pentameter. Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Losing 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z He said he considered the Broadway version “shallower” and its language untrue to the tenets of iambic pentameter. 'This play is full of firsts': behind the groundbreaking Go-Go's musical 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z But it does have in actor Trevor Young Marston a slippery and verbally nimble Dorante, which is critical to a play that retains the iambic pentameter meter of Corneille’s original text. ‘The Liar’ takes alternative facts to another level 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z We need this to fight but also just because it’s fun to think about the moon, iambic pentameter or the sea. A year-end plea: don't let politics overshadow life's splendor | Steven W Thrasher 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Heroes and villains, the strong and the weak — the heightened language and the mighty weight of iambic pentameter dignify the greatest character and the least. 'The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses' is bloody, muddy, loud and grand 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z I vaguely remembered the term "iambic pentameter" from my schooldays. 'How I accidentally became a poet through Twitter' - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z He walks over and starts talking in iambic pentameter. How to Make a Relationship Last: 5 Secrets Backed by Research 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s written in the style of Shakespeare’s history plays, right down to the iambic pentameter — so it feels like that one is in their ballpark. What’s coming to D.C. theater besides ‘Hamilton’? Two Post critics set the stage. 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z "Coach Roach, who wouldn't dare to approach," he said, his iambic pentameter flowing. Forget hump day — in boxing, Wednesday is hype day, as Alvarez-Cotto proves 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Bartlett uses verse and iambic pentameter to spin his web, leaning on “Macbeth” and “Richard III” and “King Lear.” Review: Broadway’s ‘King Charles III’ ingenuous, intriguing 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Agents hardly knew what to do with his parodies of Shakespeare in iambic pentameter, his impromptu foreign dialects and improvisations like “and look, a gentle rose, dying here anon ... like myself.” Jack Rollins Dies at 100; Sharpened Talent Like Woody Allen’s 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Shakespeare played with iambic pentameter his whole life. How Play Enriches Our Creative Capacity 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z What binds Whedon's spectacles with his Shakespeare are the quips, which sail in iambic pentameter in one and zigzag between explosions in the others. Review: 'Age of Ultron' is an Avengers overdose 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He is also writing a curriculum for high school teachers, to help students learn iambic pentameter, the meaning of the sonnets, and how to make their own films. Rise, Restive Muse, 154 Times: All Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Through a New York Lens 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? This Hilarious Tumblr Turns Your Favorite Pop Songs Into Shakespearean Sonnets 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Baker noted that the Yiddish translation retained “perfect iambic pentameter” of the original English poems. A Treasure House of Yiddish Prepares to Close 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s not rhymed, but it’s definitely in iambic pentameter like Shakespeare and Milton used in their poems, and were in the plays. Conversation on Daydreaming with Jerome L. Singer 2013-12-10T22:45:07.126Z And what if the National Organization for Marriage did their next mass mailing in iambic pentameter? Christian teen performs anti-gay rap in the forest, films it 2013-03-06T19:51:00Z Limerick contest winners Topics: , Limerick Contest, , Poetry, , Writers and Writing The response to Salon’s first weekly limerick contest was a tsunami of iambic pentameter and predictable rhymes for ‘Mitt.’ Limerick contest winners 2012-08-13T17:53:00Z The kids are taught that all prejudice of any kind is always wrong… but that bed tricks and iambic pentameter are inherently virtuous. A Point of View: On bees and beings 2012-06-03T10:32:45Z Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The dactylic movement of the heroic line in ancient Greek, the famous ῥυθμὸς ἡρῷος of Homer, is expressed in modern Europe by the iambic movement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He had begun Latin and Greek early, and under Latimer made such progress as to be able to translate the Medea of Euripides into Latin iambic verse before he was fourteen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In giving this direction to his ambition, he was probably influenced by his admiration of the old iambic and lyrical poets whom he has made the models of his own Epodes and Odes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The first requirements of the sonnet, then, are that it shall have fourteen lines, and that these lines shall be iambic pentameters. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z It is hard to find a piece of free verse that outshines a well-executed traditional Shakespearian sonnet, despite the later conforming to a rigid structure of 14 iambic pentameter lines and a strict rhyme scheme. Design Within Limits: The Urban Agriculture Project 2012-01-25T18:55:01Z Most of them are in iambic pentameters, and are for the greater part sextets in form; but though the versification is occasionally smooth, these compositions do little credit to the Muse who inspired them. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z The satires of Ennius were written in various metres, iambic, trochaic, and hexameter, and treated of various topics of personal and public interest. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The lyric poetry of early Greece may be regarded as the final form of that effort at self-expression which in the elegiac and iambic is still incomplete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The lines are, as in all forms of the sonnet, iambic pentameters. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Interest in poetry waned over the last few generations as physicians became more preoccupied with high-tech biomedical research than with iambic pentameter. Well Blog: Doctor and Patient: The Doctor as Poet 2011-12-01T12:00:05Z In the earlier portion of it, where he assumes the iambic measure, it is not difficult to perceive the influence of Byron on his diction. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Again, in imitating the iambic and trochaic metres of the Greek drama, the Roman poets were quite indifferent to the laws by which their finer harmony is produced. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Then, as the individual life became more and more elegiac and iambic poetry had become the social expression of that life in all its varied interests and feelings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Alexandrine, al-egz-an′drin, n. a rhyming verse of twelve syllables, six iambic feet, so-called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z And he was an iambic poet, inferior to no one who has ever lived since the time of Archilochus. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z They are written in the long iambic fourteeners of Chapman’s Iliad, a metre not touched by Keats elsewhere, and perhaps chosen to convey a sense of the sustained continuous trudge of his wayfaring. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Any of the feet admissible in an iambic line might occupy any place in the line, with the exception of the last. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Elegiac and iambic poetry both belong to the borderland between epic and lyric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z ‘Swearers and swaggerers jeer at my name’ is supposed to be an iambic line. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Perhaps I have been too long accustomed to the iambic measure with variations, as best suited to English heroic poetry, to be able to form a correct opinion. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The next line is almost as rough, and seems indeed to slip into the solid English iambic; but may also be set right by giving full attention to accent. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The poems numbered from i to lx, are short lyrical or satiric pieces, written in the phalaecian, glyconic, or iambic metres, and devoted almost entirely to subjects of personal interest. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z While, however, elegy stands nearer to epos, iambic stands nearer to the lyric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The iambic foot, more than any other, expresses controlled passion,—passion expressed with deliberation. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The Italian hendecasyllabic, the French Alexandrian, the English heroic iambic, are obvious examples. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z His satires related to various subjects, and were written in different sorts of verses—hexameters being mingled with iambic and trochaic lines, as fancy dictated. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Many of the epigrams refer to the persons who are the subject of the short lyric and iambic pieces. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z As we see in the case of Solon, iambic verse could serve for the expression of that deeper thought, that more inward self-communing, for which the elegiac form would have been inappropriate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Adequate rendering of this poem requires a very decided touch upon the strong foot, that is, an accentuation of the iambic movement. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z What seems tolerably certain is that the modern Italian hendecasyllable was suggested by one of the Latin eleven-syllabled meters, but that, in the decay of quantitative prosody, an iambic rhythm asserted itself. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The part written out was in iambic verse, but the extemporary dialogue which filled up the scene was in prose, or in the rudest species of versification. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Milton goes on to speak of “the lofty grave tragedians” who employed “chorus or iambic,” High actions and high passions best describing. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z But these two forms of poetry, both Ionian, the elegiac and the iambic, belong essentially to the same stage of the literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Note the effect of the first line of most of the stanzas, then the quick change to iambic movement expressing the rebuke which is the real theme of the poem. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The Italian hendecasyllable is an accentual iambic line of five feet with one unaccented syllable over and included in the rhyme. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Wyatt’s primary deed was his gradual rediscovery of the iambic decasyllabic line duly accented—the line that had been first discovered by Chaucer for England; and next came its building into sonnet and stanza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The unrhymed iambic pentameter known as blank verse is really a form of free verse; it is a modified form of the unrhymed classical measure. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But it was not until the rise of the Attic drama that the full capabilities of iambic verse were seen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The change to the iambic in the central part of the poem only proves the real character of the trochaic feet, and, in fact, accentuates their spirit. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Otherwise, the rhythm bears the appearance of a six-foot accentual iambic, an appearance which is confirmed by the recurrence of a single rhyme or assonance in a throughout the poem. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But Daniel employs rime royal and terza rima, while some modern epistles have been cast in short iambic rhymed measures or in blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z They deviated more than Shakespeare, who did not always confine himself to the iambic foot and pentameter line in his blank verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Even after an age of reflection had begun, elegiac poetry, the first offshoot of epic, was, with iambic verse, the vehicle of much which among other races would have been committed to prose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Going back, as we have seen, to the seventeenth century for his inspiration in style, Moore began by using only the trochaic and iambic measures. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z To him certainly we owe the invention of iambic poetry and its application to the purposes of satire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The principal difference between them is, that for the most part the Spanish romance is in trochaic, the British ballad in iambic metre. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis His iambic poems were renowned for force of style, liveliness of metaphor, and a powerful but bitter spirit of satire. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli A positive settling of the question by his own illustration is indicated by the emphasis of the iambic movement in the next line. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The iambic blank verse of Italy was, however, mainly hendecasyllabic, not decasyllabic, and under French influences the habit of rhyme soon returned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Archilochus made use of the iambus and the trochee, and organized them into the two forms of metre known as the iambic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The beat is iambic, but the natural accent of the words is rigidly observed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The Chanson de Geste, indeed, displays in its matter and style many traces of Germanic origin, but the metre with its regular iambic cadence and its rigid caesura testifies to Latin influence. A Short History of French Literature It would be impossible for him to talk in a steady, straight-forward iambic, or even in the hesitating, emotional trochee. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The recitation of a long epic may thus have resembled theatrical dialogue; even more so must the alternation of iambic poems, the form being frequently an address in the second person. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The trochaic metre he generally used for subjects of a serious nature; the iambic for satires. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The poems of Catullus consist of 116 pieces, varying in length from 2 to 408 lines, the great mass of them being, however, short pieces, written in lyric, iambic or elegiac metre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The tendency of both is towards iambic rhythm, but it is not exclusively manifested as in later verse. A Short History of French Literature Trochaic metre is often read, as if it were a kind of crude iambic. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z In this period, epic poetry declined, and lyric poetry took its place in the three forms of elegiac, iambic, and melic; the arts, too, were beginning to be cultivated. Greek Women He used constantly to repeat aloud these iambic verses:— "But silver plate and garb of purple dye To actors are of use,—but not in life." Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The metres of the earlier years of Elizabeth's reign are so overwhelmingly iambic," Professor Schelling observes, "that this perfectly metrical, if somewhat irregular, anapæstic movement comes like a surprise. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History With iambic pentameter as the basis of the dialogue, the poet varies his measures as Shakespeare does his, and with very similar ends in view. Minor Poems by Milton It might of course be easy to pick out anticipations in part of this combination of iambic dimeter, trochaic, and anapæstic; but it never had taken thorough form before. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Archilochus is the father of iambic poetry, and he made it the medium of expression of personal passion and satire. Greek Women The groups which, like the bar in music, break up the verse for utterance, fall uniambically; and in declaiming a so-called iambic verse, it may so happen that we never utter one iambic foot. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History These seven-syllable lines have a trochaic effect, but are to be scanned as iambic, the standard rhythm of the poem. Minor Poems by Milton The sonnet may be briefly defined as a rimed poem in iambic pentameter, containing fourteen lines, divided into the octave of eight lines and the sextet of six. An Introduction to Shakespeare The average quatrain is in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The metre also lacks uniformity, veering from iambic to anapaestic form. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The characteristic irregularity in this stanza is the variation from trochaic to iambic rhythm. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Referring to the Spenserian stanza which is composed of nine lines, eight of which are iambic pentameters, and the ninth a hexameter or Alexandrine. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The trimeter iambic is a foot longer than our heroic measure. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 They are written in iambic tetrameter which is kept from singsongness by the action of the dialogue. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers He tends to favor the anapaest and the iambic tetrameter. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 This is a rare specimen of unrimed verse in other than iambic rhythm. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The first eight lines are iambic pentameters, and the ninth a hexameter, the stanza thus closing with a lingering cadence which adds greatly to the melody of the verse. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer It is true our measures are of the iambic character, which Horace says is the fittest for action—and therefore, in the Greek, the dramatic. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Thus Pope’s Iliad is written in iambic pentameter, in lines made up of five iambics; and Longfellow’s Hiawatha is trochaic tetrameter, each line containing four trochees. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers In the second place, the metre is irregular; departing very widely in places from the iambic heptameter which appears to be the dominant measure. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In English, naturally enough, the measure always tended to be iambic. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History As regards their metre and versification, the ballads were commonly composed of iambic hexameters or heptameters rhyming in couplets. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer In both pieces the author fell back upon his earlier scheme of metre, the Christabel blend of iambic with anap�stic passages, instead of the nearly pure iambs of his middle poems. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series The fact is, I remembered some iambic lines which I had been told were inscribed on his monument, and which set forth that his tomb was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight In the case of the present poem, the very first line will serve as a perfect guide; its conformity to the iambic heptameter plan being absolute. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 There is some freedom, however, as to the number of light syllables, and some variation between the iambic and trochaic rhythm. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History B�rger attempted a translation of the Iliad in iambic blank verse, and a prose translation of 'Macbeth.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Our ears, however, are hardly fine enough to catch the iambic twang of which Quintilian complains. The Life of Cicero Volume II. Only about a fourth of Plautus’ verses are in iambic senarii, while in Terence, who followed Menander in this respect, about half of the verses are in this form. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The odd measure of the poem is one peculiarly suited to the author's delicate type of genius; an iambic line of only three feet. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 One cannot avoid querying whether this interesting combination of words conveys any simpler and better idea to the normal English reader than the familiar statement that "a trochaic foot may begin an iambic verse." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the early Love's Labour's Lost are more than one thousand rhyming five-stress iambic lines; in The Tempest are only two; in The Winter's Tale not one. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar If from the first, the verse is iambic, and is scanned like this:— ^ ^ ^ ^ “Proud and low ly, beg gar and lord.” English: Composition and Literature He also compiled a description, in iambic trimeters, of the coasts of the Mediterranean, Caspian and Black Seas in several books, of which only a fragment of the first is extant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The metre, which is well handled, consists of regular iambic pentameter quatrains with a couplet at the conclusion. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 That we do not know the inventors of the great single poetic vehicles, the hexameter, the iambic Senarius, the English heroic, the French Alexandrine, is one thing. A History of Elizabethan Literature The metres may be timed as the minstrel chooses—fast or slow—and the iambic current checked in reverted eddy, as the words chance to come. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing In the following nursery rhyme it is clear that the prevailing foot is anapestic, though several feet are iambic, and in the first two lines and the last line a single syllable makes a foot. English: Composition and Literature It is an error to call these iambic odes “irregular,” although they do not follow the classic rules with strophe, antistrophe, and epode. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature "Evening Prayer", by Rheinhart Kleiner, is a poem of great beauty and real worth, couched in the alternating iambic pentameter and trimeter which this poet seems to have made his own particular medium of expression. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is a literal translation in iambic pentameter. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography If one adds two syllables one gets the Greek iambic verse, thus: 'I cannot tell what you and other men believe.' The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' There are four feet in each verse; so the poem is written in iambic tetrameter. English: Composition and Literature Do they notice the varying metre from the stately iambic to the sudden "voluptuous swell" of the foot of three syllables in waltz time? Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature The general anapaestic or dactylic rhythm is much disturbed by the iambic fourth line of the first stanza. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He first gives his reasons for preferring iambic pentameter to the ‘Reinartsvers,’ which some might think best to use. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Most of Shakespeare’s plays are written in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter, called heroic verse. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide It is iambic pentameter,—the most common verse in great English poetry. English: Composition and Literature Only in the Jodlers and Landlers of the Tyrolese, Austrian and Swiss mountains is the original Teutonic iambic preserved in its purity. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science The line, "The twilight hours like birds flew by," is made up of four iambic feet, and is therefore an iambic tetrameter. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Heyne chose a new medium for his version, the unrimed iambic line. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Verse made of this kind of feet is called iambic. English: Composition and Literature The meter of this poem, then is anapestic tetrameter, varied by an added syllable in most of the odd-numbered lines and by an iambic foot at the beginning of each line. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The meter is iambic pentameter; but the first foot of the second line is a trochee, and emphasizes thoughts with fine effect. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism ‘Moreover, the iambic pentameter lends itself well to division into hemistichs, the principal characteristic of the ancient epic versification.’ The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Anapestic feet are used freely to improve the music; in fact, they are nearly as numerous as the iambic feet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide In this stanza the prevailing foot is iambic, but the first foot is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature In iambic poetry each foot contains two syllables, the second of which is accented. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 It consists of nine verses, the first eight being iambic pentameter, and the ninth line iambic hexameter, or Alexandrine. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism All the rest, except iambic, are become insufferable to me. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works It must consist of exactly fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide If the unaccented syllable is supplied at the beginning the poem is iambic; if at the end, it is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature When a line of poetry is composed of two-syllable feet in which the second syllable bears the accent we call that meter iambic. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter measure, is known as blank verse. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism How the cothurns trod majestic, Down the deep iambic lines, And the rolling anapaestic Curled like vapour over shrines!” Julian Home The "fragments" are couplets, in iambic hexameter, each one generally complete in itself, yet grouped in sections by some connecting thought, after the manner of the stanzas of Tennyson's "In Memoriam." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 For example, “The Merchant of Venice” is in iambic pentameter, and “The Courtship of Miles Standish” is in dactylic hexameter. English: Composition and Literature In this poem the feet are iambic and there are four of them, consequently we name the meter of this poem iambic tetrameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The great charm of the metre of Wither, which Charles Lamb admired and imitated, lies in its facile combination of what, for the sake of brevity, may be called the iambic and trochaic movements. Milton It is a collection of stories written in heroic metre—that is, in the rhymed couplet of five iambic feet. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 They're as likely as not to ask you to write a heroic poem in iambic pentameters, if you know what they are. When Patty Went to College From this example one learns to appreciate how nearly alike are trochaic and iambic verses. English: Composition and Literature At last we are free from the tyranny of the iambic, and have variety beyond the comparative freedom of the trochee. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) In the Odes of 1868, absorbed finally into The Unknown Eros of 1877, the iambic metre is still used; but with what a new freedom, and at the summons of how liberating an inspiration! Figures of Several Centuries The first eight lines are of the usual length of five iambic feet; the last line contains six feet, and is therefore an Alexandrine. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The general rhythm of the whole sonnet of which these two lines are the beginning is plainly duple rising, or iambic. The Principles of English Versification The meters may be timed as the minstrel chooses—fast or slow—and the iambic current checked in reverted eddy, as the words chance to come. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The normal line of which these quatrains are composed is a thirteen-syllabled one divided by a central pause, so that the first half is an iambic dimeter catalectic, and the second an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Now this verse is not analogous to the iambic trimeter of Sophocles or the blank verse of Shakspere, but roughly corresponds to the Greek choruses or the occasional rhymed songs of the Elizabethan stage. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika I know not how it is with you who are really a Poet; and perhaps you may think I am as wrong about my trochee as about my iambic. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Feminine Ending, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, 71. The Principles of English Versification The demonstration is complete, if we compare the iambic metre of Archilochus with that of the Vedic hymns. Myth and Science An Essay This poem is the third of the iambic monologues, and, but for Artemis Prologizes, the first in blank verse. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Verse—or at any rate, unrhymed iambic verse—is easier to write than prose, if you care to leave out the emotion which makes verse characteristic and worth writing. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 The work is, however, a poem in the English language, and the pronunciation suggested here and in the Glossary is essential for preserving the iambic metre of the English poetry. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse Initial Truncation is the omission of the first unstressed element of a line, usually in the iambic metres, thus making a Headless verse. The Principles of English Versification The rhythm of the lines is marked, the effect upon the ear being quite like that of English iambic pentameters hypercatalectic. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence And it gives some weight to the further fact that these passages resemble one another, and differ from the bulk of the other Witch passages, in being iambic in rhythm. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth This gives an added delight, since the ear, attuned to the iambic beat, readily recognizes it when it recurs. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway The most common metrical form in my translation is iambic pentameter. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse There occur examples of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-stress iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic lines, sometimes used continuously and sometimes used in combinations with other lengths. The Principles of English Versification For even the wine was mixed with water according to musical ratios; for instance, the pæonic or 3 to 2, = ; the iambic or 2 to 1, = ; dactylic or 2 to 2, = . Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University His trisyllabic interspersions—the leap in the vein that makes iambic verse alive and passionate—are as happy as they can be, and the relapse into the uniform dissyllabic gives just the right contrast. Matthew Arnold Though the prevailing verse is iambic pentameter, we rarely find more than three or four real accents. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Because of the strict iambic metre of the translation, every second syllable must be stressed. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it. The Principles of English Versification The relative value of a single dactyl occurring in an iambic pentameter line cannot be predicated of cases in which the two forms alternate with each other throughout the verse. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The iambic movement is constantly broken and compelled to fight its way through. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Every iambic verse is a deviation from reality. The Photoplay A Psychological Study Tennyson, The Brook. are unmistakably iambic, and Wordsworth's Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies. The Principles of English Versification The amphibrachic measure begins weakly and ends strongly, and thus approximates, we may say, to the iambic type. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. He is claimed as the introducer of blank verse—the iambic pentameter without rhyme, occasionally broken for musical effect by a change in the place of the cæsural pause. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Besides the sonnet, he introduced into England blank verse, which he borrowed from the Italian versi sciolti, fixing that decasyllable iambic rhythm for English versification in which our greatest poetical triumphs have been achieved. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series In Faust, the iambic measure predominates; the style is compact; the many licenses which the author allows himself are all directed towards a shorter mode of construction. Faust Furthermore, in a passage like the following, which everyone recognizes as exquisitely musical, it is not obvious whether the rhythm is iambic or anapestic or trochaic. The Principles of English Versification The proportional values of the variations in alternate measures for accented and unaccented elements are given in the following table, in which the figures for the trochaic and iambic forms are combined: Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In his translation of the "Agamemnon," Mr. Browning has used the double ending continuously, so as to reproduce the extended measure of the Greek iambic trimeter. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) If he had told me that Swinburne's Faustine was written in iambic hexameter it would have sounded more like old times. The Story of The American Legion Rage armed Archilochus with the iambic of his own invention. The Works of Horace The common term iambic pentameter is not so objectionable, but is to be rejected because of its similarity to the others, which are actually confusing. The Principles of English Versification The perception of variations in the measures of an iambic pentameter line was first taken up. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. As soon as the suspense is over, it drops to the iambic senarius. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow Beneath thy feet iambic. The Poems of William Watson His fables are written in choliambic verse; that is, imperfect iambic which has a spondee in the last foot and is fitted for the satire for which it was originally used. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The first, from Paradise Lost, II, 604-614, is in blank verse, with five iambic feet to a line; the second, from Shelley's The Cloud, is apparently irregular, but the basis is clearly anapestic. The Principles of English Versification Usually in iambic verse the barely perceptible lag shows the following proportions to the other pauses: 34 35 34 etc., or 47 48.5 47. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. If we should arrange the commoner Latin verses in a sequence according to the emotional effects which they produce, at the bottom of the series would stand the iambic senarius. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature His measure is iambic, free iambic, and every line consists, not of ten syllables, but of eleven, his native tongue having none other than feminine rhymes. Essays Æsthetical For comic poets having composed a fable through things of a probable nature, they thus give whatever names they please to their characters, and do not, like iambic poets, write poems about particular persons. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. The Principles of English Versification Most of the experiments were performed with iambic tetrameter. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In this way it becomes a short realistic story of every-day people, involving frequently a love intrigue, and told in the iambic senarius, the simplest form of verse. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature This, besides being too much rhyme and too much vowel, is, in iambic lines, metrically a defect, the eleventh syllable being a superfluous syllable. Essays Æsthetical With Shakespeare, he says, "prose comes in whenever the subject, being more familiar, is unsuited to the majestic English iambic." Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Is Shelley's To Night prevailingly iambic or trochaic? The Principles of English Versification A number of measurements by different observers show that in the iambic foot the unaccented syllable is proportionately much shorter than the unaccented syllable in the trochaic foot. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. When these conditions are reversed the iambic foot will prevail and the melody will be in the second mode. The Troubadours These words, making a smooth iambic line, give some utterance, and therefore some relief, to the feeling of all. Essays Æsthetical A verse having four iambic feet is called iambic tetrameter. Composition-Rhetoric Two of the short lines are definitely iambic, the other eight are doubtful, but apparently trochaic. The Principles of English Versification In general, the larger temporal variations of the trochaic and iambic rhythm forms are too slight to be significant when taken individually. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The verse in all his plays is generally the rhymeless iambic of ten or eleven syllables, only occasionally intermixed with rhymes, but more frequently alternating with prose. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes In the case of Dante the rhythmical basis is the same in both languages; for the iambic measure is our chief poetic vehicle, wrought to perfection by Shakespeare and Milton. Essays Æsthetical Find three poems written in iambic verse, and three written in trochaic verse. Composition-Rhetoric If it is read as iambic, eleven of the hundred feet in the long lines will be 'irregular'; if it is read as trochaic, eleven likewise will be 'irregular.' The Principles of English Versification In the next rhythmical type analyzed—the iambic form—that relation of the first to the second interval holds which was found to obtain in the preceding forms. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Selections from the Greek elegiac, iambic, and lyric poets. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December As to the form of Dante, what is essential in that has been preserved, namely, the iambic measure and the rhyme. Essays Æsthetical Write at least one stanza, using iambic verse. Composition-Rhetoric For the iambic is most frequent in those orations which are composed in a humble and lowly style; but the paeon is suited to a more dignified style; and the dactyl to both. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Unrhymed iambic pentameters—the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. The Devil's Dictionary Pardon me, those last six words comprise an iambic line—a fact which is itself the best evidence of my agitation. The Brother of Daphne However, he was so moved by the heat of youth and passion, that he wrote a quantity of iambic verses against Scipio, in the bitter, sarcastic style of Archilochus, without, however, his license and scurrility. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Most blank verse makes use of the iambic pentameter measure, but we find many exceptions. Composition-Rhetoric But Aristotle's opinion is very different, for he considers that the heroic rhythm is a grander one than is admissible in prose, and that an iambic is too like ordinary conversation. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 The poem, he explained, consists of thirteen lines in iambic tetrameter and two lines of two iambics each; in all, one line more than the sonnet's count. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems 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. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The first kind consists of five feet, viz. a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable and two dactyles; the second of two dactyles and two trochees. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 A quatrain consisting of iambic pentameter verse with alternate rhymes is called an elegiac stanza. Composition-Rhetoric For the iambic and the dactyl are those which are most usually employed in verse; and, therefore, as we avoid verses in making speeches, so also a recurrence of these feet must be avoided. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? The Republic He screamed and drawled his four-foot iambic lines, the alternating rhythms jingled like little bells, noisy and meaningless, while I still watched Zinaïda and tried to take in the import of her last words. The Torrents of Spring A dirge may be in racing anapæsts, laughter in the most sedate iambic measure; a solemn invocation may move in rapid three-foot lines, while grave heroic verse may contain the gayest of humours. The Lyric An Essay The Tennysonian stanza consists of four iambic tetrameter lines in which the first line rhymes with the fourth, and the second with the third. Composition-Rhetoric Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 But, this redoubtable critic, as I discovered upon a closer inspection, has himself been betrayed into a senarian or iambic verse in the very paragraph in which he censures the composition of Isocrates. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. He adds that he is now fairly master of the iambic form and that the verse cannot fail to impart splendor and dignity. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The older and more rugged iambic survives in the fables of Phaedrus, written at no distant date from these plays, if not actually contemporary. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines: the first eight are iambic pentameters, and the last line is an iambic hexameter or Alexandrine. Composition-Rhetoric The iambic meter was first used in satire. Outline of Universal History They are written in iambic senarii, in the fluent and studiously simple Latin of an earlier period, not without occasional vulgarisms, but with a total absence of the turgid rhetoric which was coming into fashion. Latin Literature The master's orders are given in a lively trochaic measure, while the homilies move at a slower gait in iambic lines of varying length. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Whence the Senecan iambic is derived, is a question which cannot be answered with certainty. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Occasionally a poem in which the prevailing foot is iambic has a trochee for the first foot of a line in order that it may begin with an accented syllable. Composition-Rhetoric We have it in our dramatic hendecasyllable; but then we have a power of interweaving the iambic close ad libitum. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge If "trochaic" measures do not always trip it on a light fantastic toe, neither do "iambic" measures always pace sedately. A Study of Poetry The unit is the line, the syllables of which are numbered and accentuated, the line most frequent containing seven syllables with iambic rhythm. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur It is wholly unlike the early Roman tragic iambic. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal When the feet are accented on the last syllable,—that is, when the verse is iambic or anapestic,—an extra syllable may be added at the end of a line. Composition-Rhetoric He established in Spain the Italian iambic, the sonnet, and canzone of Petrarch, the terza rima of Dante, and the flowing octaves of Ariosto. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The In Memoriam stanza, "Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song" is four-stress iambic, rhyming ab ba. A Study of Poetry Its metre is the heroic iambic, in rhymed octave stanzas. National Epics The fragment of two lines quoted above is in iambic senarii. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is written in iambic pentameter verse. Composition-Rhetoric Now Aeschylus, keep silent; if you don't You won't get off with three iambic lines. The Frogs The use of the traditional terminology "iambic," "trochaic," etc., is convenient, and is open to no objection if one is careful to make clear the sense in which he employs such ambiguous terms. A Study of Poetry It will be observed that iambic feet prevail in this translation. Toward the Gulf Did the Romans require a more forcible style when the long iambic or the trochaic was employed? or is it the weakness of his metrical treatment that Quintilian complains of? The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Ordinarily each accented syllable is preceded by an unaccented one; that is, the majority of feet are iambic. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original Within the iambic limits, there are no two lines in the whole poem that have an identical rhythm. Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry The question of calling a given group of lines "iambic" or "trochaic," for instance, can be made quite arbitrary, depending upon where you begin to count syllables. A Study of Poetry This verse, in variety and metrical signification, is greatly inferior to the English and German rhymeless iambic, from its uniform feminine termination, and from there being merely an accentuation in Italian, without any syllabic measure. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature He now and then employed the trochaic or iambic metres. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius They scrawled upon the blank walls of Rome an iambic line which reminded all who read it that Nero, Orestes, and Alcmaeon were murderers of their mothers. Seekers after God This kind of time is analogous to the measure of our heroic or iambic verse. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. So is it with this "iambic" and "trochaic" matter. A Study of Poetry I am not going to change my c�suras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachycatalectic, you had better not wait to hear it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius His fables are ninety-seven in number, and are written in iambic verse. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. The usual iambic flow is disturbed in both lines by the very same ripple, viz., a trochee in the second foot, placid in the one line, bosom in the other. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Whether we called the metre of the Prologue rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, or rhymed couplets of ten-syllabled, five-stressed verse, the music, at least, was clear enough. A Study of Poetry In this poetry of invective its natural fitness brought an iambic metre into use; hence our present term 'iambic', because it was the metre of their 'iambs' or invectives against one another. Aristotle on the art of poetry His technical skill is very considerable; the iambic senarius becomes in his hands an extremely pleasing rhythm, though the occurrence of spondees in the second and fourth place savours of archaic usage. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Its verse is the counterpart of the Greek iambic, not of the Greek or Latin hexameter. Lectures and Essays But these verses will not submit to iambic or trochaic scansion, and their form is as strange as a democratic government was a century and a half ago to the monarchies of Europe. History of American Literature For example, the line quoted above, "From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate," has a distinctly different rhythm from such another iambic line as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The Principles of Aesthetics The result was that the old poets became some of them writers of heroic and others of iambic verse. Aristotle on the art of poetry The greater part of each is in the iambic trimeter; the choruses generally in anapaests, of which, however, he does not understand the structure. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius My good man, truce to your heroics; get off those iambic stilts, and tell me in plain prose what this get-up means; what did you want with the lower regions? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 The most notable be the heroic, lyric, tragic, comic, satiric, iambic, elegiac, pastoral, and certain others. English literary criticism The stresses are nearly even throughout; the meter cannot be accurately described as iambic, trochaic, or anapestic; yet there is a rhythm in the approximate temporal equality of the thought-moments. The Principles of Aesthetics The iambic and trochaic, on the other hand, are metres of movement, the one representing that of life and action, the other that of the dance. Aristotle on the art of poetry Horace mentions the ponderous weight of his iambic lines, which were loaded with spondees. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Rendered into vigorous English rhymed couplets of seven iambic feet in 1919. The Lay of the Cid We must choose the iambic movement as being most congenial to English; we must avoid the ten-syllable iambic as already appropriated to the longer Asclepiad line. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic. The Principles of Aesthetics However, in the two poems I was speaking of, the subject matter is similar; the pieces are about the same length and the writers have adopted the same iambic octo-syllable, with alternate rhymes. Such Is Life It was considered as a compound of the iambic and trochaic systems. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius So far Arabic metre is true to Nature: in impassioned speech the movement of language is iambic: we say "I will, I will," not "I will." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 Such a metre is that which I have been led to choose, the eight-syllable iambic with alternate rhymes. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace It is occasionally introduced into iambic metre with admirable effect. The Lady of the Lake The three hundred and fifty-eight dedicatory epigrams include sixteen in hexameter and iambic, and one in hendecasyllabic; and among the seven hundred and fifty sepulchral epigrams are forty-two in hexameter, iambic, and other mixed metres. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology But the former, though full of invective, were iambic or personal, not properly satirical. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius For example Aeschylus and Euripides each composed the same iambic line. The Poetics of Aristotle A comic poet, or maker of iambic or satirical lyric verse, shall not be permitted to ridicule any of the citizens, either by word or likeness, either in anger or without anger. Laws The metre of the poem proper is iambic, that is, with the accent on the even syllables, and octosyllabic, or eight syllables to the line. The Lady of the Lake The Hortatory section includes a score of hexameter and iambic fragments, some of them proverbial lines, others extracts from the tragedians. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Then he put into the pocket his pipe, his pouch, his tobacco-stopper, and his matches, murmuring to himself a Greek iambic line which had come into his head a propos of nothing obvious. New Grub Street On the other hand, the iambic and the trochaic tetrameter are stirring measures, the latter being akin to dancing, the former expressive of action. The Poetics of Aristotle I love to see English poetry move to many measures, to many numbers, but chiefly with the simple iambic and the simple trochaic foot. Hearts of Controversy The appropriate metre was also here introduced; hence the measure is still called the iambic or lampooning measure, being that in which people lampooned one another. The Poetics of Aristotle Of the various kinds of words, the compound are best adapted to Dithyrambs, rare words to heroic poetry, metaphors to iambic. The Poetics of Aristotle But in iambic verse, which reproduces, as far as may be, familiar speech, the most appropriate words are those which are found even in prose. The Poetics of Aristotle |
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