197 examples of iambic in sentences

Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second.

But still this critic, in the very passage in which he finds this fault with him, (as I noticed when I was examining his work very closely,) himself makes an iambic without knowing it.

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.

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.

For he thinks that feet ought to be measured by their syllables, not by their quantity; and he does the same in regard to the trochee, which in its quantity and times is equivalent to an iambic; but which is a fault in an oration, if it be placed at the end, because a sentence ends better with a long syllable.

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.

Even the iambic, which consists of one short and one long syllable; or that foot which is equal to the choreus, having three short syllables, being therefore equal in time though not in the number of syllables; or the dactyl, which consists of one long and two short syllables, if it is next to the last foot, joins that foot very trippingly, if it is a choreus or a spondee.

" If he had not paused before "ipsi prodeant," he would have at once seen that an iambic had escaped him,"prodeant ipsi" would sound in every respect better.

Of the Kinds of Verse Order I. Iambic Verse; its 8 Measures Order II.

"Common metre stanzas consist of four Iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables.

"Short metre stanzas consist of four Iambic lines; the third of eight, and the rest of six syllables.

"Particular metre stanzas consist of six Iambic lines; the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight.

"Hallelujah metre stanzas consist of six Iambic lines; the last two of eight syllables, and the rest of six."Ibid.

"Long metre stanzas are merely the union of four Iambic lines, of ten syllables each.

Such syllables are redundant in iambic and anapestic verses; in lines of any other sort, they are generally, if not always, included in the measure.

Monometer line, iambic, examples of, trochaic, do., anapestic, do., dactylic, an examp.

Octometer line, may be reduced to tetrameter iambic, examples of trochaic, do dactylic, example of Octometer, trochaic, rhyme and termination of; its pauses, and how may be divided; the most common form of.

Pentameter line, iambic, examples of: is the regular Eng.

Tetrameter line, iambic, examples of a favorite with many Eng. writers; BUTL.

Trimeter line, iambic, the measure seldom used alone; examples of, and do., with diversifications trochaic, examples of anapestic, examples of alternated with the tetram., examp., "The Rose," of COWP.; the same scanned dactylic, examples of.

in how may be changed to coincide with other measures; how is affected by retrenchment confounded with iambic by several gramm.

Iambic words and regard for accent in Plautus.

Selections from the Greek elegiac, iambic, and lyric poets.

Less readily may we suppose that any deep philosophical impulse directed his mind towards certain modes of expression, than that in an age of catholic experiment he turned from the penning of impossible iambic trimeters, 'minding,' as E. K. directly informs us, 'to furnish our tongue with this kind, wherein it faulteth.'

We find it once more, intermingling with a certain formal strain, in Drayton's Shepherds' Sirena containing the delightful song, with its subtle interchange of dactylic and iambic rhythms, so admirably characteristic of the author of the Agincourt ballad: Neare to the Silver Trent Sirena dwelleth, Shee to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late

197 examples of  iambic  in sentences