iamb's Usage Examples:

Ignatius Diaconus, in the 9th century, made a version of 53 fables in choliambic tetrameters.

The calm beauty of Greek tragedy is seen in the new iambic version of Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787); the classicism of the Renaissance gives the ground-tone to the wonderful drama of Torquato Tasso (1790), in which the conflict of poetic genius with the prosaic world is transmuted into imperishable poetry.

, which were written in the trochaic and iambic metres that had been employed by Ennius and Pacuvius in their Saturae.

Altogether the gallery contains twenty rooms, one being assigned to the complete cycle of the "History of Saint Ursula," by Carpaccio; another to Giambellino and to the Celliniani; and a whole wall of a third being occupied by the famous Veronese, "11 Convito in casa di Levi.

But in Bokus time, and indeed as long as the factories flourished, many other kinds of faience were produced, the principal having rich black or fiamb glazes, while a few were green or yellow monochromes.

The lines are usually iambic pentameters rhyming according to a fixed pattern.

Giambattista della Porta, in his Magia Naturalis, printed in 558, makes the following remarkable statement: "If you do but know how to join the two (viz.

196), in his iambics.

Each of these hymns has eight four-line stanzas and is written in strict iambic tetrameter.

Ciamberlini has found a system of 127 forms appertaining to three ternary quadratics (Batt.

Its potters took fiamb glazes for models, and their pieces possessed an air of novelty that attracted connoisseurs.

Synonyms:

iambus, foot, metrical unit, metrical foot,

Antonyms:

ride, subtract, head,