iambic in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Both comprise lines ten syllables long, typically in iambic pentameter.
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The poem does have a meter: it is called iambic pentameter.
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Both were written in ionic dialect, elegiac poetry was in elegiac couplets and iambic poems in iambic trimeter.
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Its three unemotional quatrains are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter.
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These two latters genres were the elegiac poetry and the iambic poetry.
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Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter are commonly known as blank verse.
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The strong syllables of the remaining iambic feet each carry secondary stress, as do any final weak syllables.
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Iambic rhythms were felt to be especially suited to this role.
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It lyrically speaks prose in a form of trochaic or iambic heptameter.
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It is composed in six quatrains with the meter alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
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