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Significados de iambus em inglês

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iambo
catalão
iambe
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yambo

A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.

iambo
Uso de iambus em inglês
1
The genitive in Saxon would be mannes, a trochee; in English, of man, an iambus.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
2
Never take an iambus as a Christian name.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3
The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
4
He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
5
The elegy and iambus contain the germ of the lyric style, though they do not themselves come under that head.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
6
It has also been proposed to make the third foot a spondee or an iambus, and the remaining feet anapaests, thus:
A Study of Poetry
7
An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the last accented; as, Bĕtrāy,consíst
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Accompanied by a compendi...
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Translations for iambus
português
iambo
catalão
iambe
espanhol
yambo
Iambus ao longo do tempo