iambic metre

iambic metre
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  • Iambic pentameter — is a type of meter that is used in poetry and drama. It describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called feet . The word iambic… …   Wikipedia

  • metre — /mee teuhr/, n., v., metred, metring. Brit. meter. * * * I Basic unit of length in the metric system and the International System of Units. In 1983 the General Conference on Weights and Measures decided that the accepted value for the speed of… …   Universalium

  • Metre — Meter Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • metre — I n. BE AE spelling: meter verse rhythm arrangement of syllables 1) anapaestic, anapestic; dactylic; heroic; iambic; trochaic metre unit of length 2) a cubic; square metre * * * [ miːtə] anapestic dactylic heroic iambic square metre …   Combinatory dictionary

  • iambic — /aɪˈæmbɪk/ (say uy ambik) adjective 1. Prosody a. relating to the iamb. b. consisting of or employing an iamb or iambs. 2. Greek Literature of a kind of satirical poetry written in iambs. –noun 3. Prosody a. an iamb …  

  • Common metre — or Common measure,[1] abbreviated C. M., is a poetic meter consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line, with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) and… …   Wikipedia

  • short metre — ▪ prosody also called  short measure , abbreviation  S.M.        a quatrain of which the first, second, and fourth lines are in iambic trimeter and the third is in iambic tetrameter (tetrameter). Short metre may also refer to a poulter s measure… …   Universalium

  • common metre — ▪ literature abbreviated  C.M.,  also called  hymnal stanza        a metre used in English ballads that is equivalent to ballad metre, though ballad metre is often less regular and more conversational than common metre. Whereas ballad metre… …   Universalium

  • common metre — noun A four line hymn stanza with eight syllables in the first and third lines, six in the second and fourth • • • Main Entry: ↑common common metre A quatrain in eights and sixes, of four and of three iambic feet alternately (also service metre,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Burns metre — ▪ literature       in poetry, a stanza often used by Robert Burns (Burns, Robert) and other Scottish poets. The stanza consists of six lines rhyming aaabab of which the fourth and sixth are regularly iambic (iamb) dimeters and the others iambic… …   Universalium

  • long metre — ▪ poetry also called  long measure,  abbreviation  L.M.        in poetry, a quatrain in iambic tetrameter (tetrameter) with the second and fourth lines rhyming and often the first and third lines rhyming. An example is the following stanza from… …   Universalium


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