That he declaimed iambics and not hexameters may be accounted for by the prevalence of the iambic in the sister-cult of Demeter.
E'en 'mid his ashes, fretful, poisonous, He shootsiambics at slain Bupalus.
Euripides varies the theme in his iambics by a hundred modulations: #neanian gar andra chre tolman aei; oudeis gar on rhaithymos euklees aner.
The iambics of Archilochus and other poets were recited, as we know, at the feasts of Demeter, whose cult had points of similarity with that of Bacchus.
The principal merit of Catullus's Iambics consists in a simplicity of thought and expression.
With respect to the Iambics of Catullus, we may observe in general, that the sarcasm is indebted for its force, not so much to ingenuity of sentiment, as to the indelicate nature of the subject, or coarseness of expression.
The blank iambics of the romantic dramatists had become so execrably weak and distended, the whole movement of dramatic verse had grown so flaccid, that a little restraint in the severe limits of rhyme was absolutely necessary.
Too popular is tragic poesy, Straining his tip-toes for a farthing fee, And doth beside on rimeless numbers tread; Unbid iambics flow from careless head.
The Iambic is most commonly used in a six-foot line of iambics (the trimeter iambic, vide note on last paragraph).
If the feet beiambics or trochees, of course the number of syllables will be double that of the feet—thus a pentameter will be decasyllabic.
There is much more than in his phalaecians and iambics the appearance of effort, and there is much greater uncertainty as to his meaning.
But their satire did not incline to the form which the earlier writers of iambics had invented.
When the Athenians developed tragedy, they wrote their iambics in pure Attic, but they preserved a Dorian tone in their choruses.
In order apparently to bring the metre still more within the sphere of prose and common speech, Hipponax ended his iambicswith a spondee or a trochee instead of an iambus, doing thus the utmost violence to the rhythmical structure.
In one of his Epistles[70] Horace claims to be the first who introduced the iambics of Archilochus into Latin literature, but this is not strictly true, for Catullus and his contemporaries had written invectives in iambics.
Horace did, however, introduce the epodic metre, and he is also the first to employ his iambics to castigate the follies of his time rather than individuals.
If pulse of verse a nation's temper shows, In keen iambics English metre flows.
Possibly lines of five anapests, or of four and an initial iambus, might be written; for these would scarcely equal in length some of the iambics and trochaics already exhibited.
Iambics and trochaics often occur in the same poem; but, in either order, written with exactness, the number of feet is always the number of the long syllables.
A prosodist might just as well scan all iambics into trochaics, by pronouncing each initial short syllable to be hypermeter.
Elegiac Stanzas," in Iambics of Four feet and Three.
On a wide page, iambics and trochaics may possibly be written in octom'eter; but lines of this measure, being very long, are mostly abandoned for alternate tetrameters.
To pass by the Margites, what were the Iambics of Archilochus, and the Scazons of Hipponax, but Satires?
Although about to indite a Satire, Sulpicia declares her intention of not imitating the Hendecasyllabics of Phalæcus, the Iambics of Archilochus, or the Scazontics of Hipponax, but of writing in the good old Heroic metre.
Besides the epigrams, we possess a long description of the church of Saint Sophia by him, partly in iambics and partly in hexameters, and a poem in dimeteriambics on the hot springs of Pythia.
Some do not properly belong to the collection, as for instance the three lines of iambics heading the Erotic section and the two hendecasyllabics at the end of it, or the two hexameters at the beginning of the Dedicatory section.
If Schlegel had taken lessons from Herder in Shakespeare-translating, he would never have rendered five-footed iambics by Alexandrines, nor changed the metre of the fairy-songs.
It consisted of five parts; the anacrusis, the ampeira, cataceleusmus, iambics and dactyls, and pipes.
And some of these iambics may be found in the Acestria, and also in the Countryman, or Butalion.
The older dramatists could elevate or lower the tone of their Iambics at pleasure; from the exclusion of this verse from familiar dialogue, it has become more pompous and inflexible.
Shakspeare's Iambics are sometimes highly harmonious and full sounding; always varied and suitable to the subject, at one time distinguished by ease and rapidity, at another they move along with ponderous energy.
Examples of octaves in eight-syllabled trochaics and seven-syllabled iambics are also found.
In this line the iambics easily yield to dactyls; e.
A more complete contrast with the iambics of the early Latin Tragedies cannot be imagined.
It is for different qualities that we read the iambics of Seneca, if we read them at all.
The lines are for the most part neither original nor striking; they form a kind of abstract in iambics of the second Aeneid, from the appearance of Sinon to the emergence of the Greeks from the Trojan horse.
But he had a poor ear for rhythm: his hexameter is monotonous as the iambics of Seneca.
Its faults are further aggravated by the metre: taken line by line, the iambicsof Seneca are impressive: taken collectively they are monotonous in the extreme.
He may have combined in these libelli some of the elegiac epigrams with his iambics and phalaecians, just as Martial, who regarded him as his master, did afterwards.
They imitate La Fontaine's free versification and they are written in iambics of varying length.
Gore ot Uma is written in verse, in iambics of varying length, like Krylov's fables.
Moreover, it was to Boyle that Du Moulin in 1670 dedicated the first part of his Parerga or Collection of Latin Poems, the second part of which contained his reprint of the Iambics against Milton from the Regii Sanguinis Clamor.
Elegy and epigram were founded on epic; the satirical iambics of Hipponax and his late disciple Herondas are Ionic.
And now, too, in his darkest hour, it was Greek that surged in him--iambics of thunderous wrath such as those which are volleyed by Prometheus.
The iambics in him began to breathe such sweetness as is on the lips of Alcestis going to her doom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iambics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
