The break in the middle of the Alexandrine, it will occur to every competent judge, has nothing analogous to it in the trimeter iambic, but exactly corresponds to the invariable law of the pentameter.
The Alexandrine of twelve syllables might seem to be the trimeter iambic of the ancients.
A rude iambic trimeter of the colloquial kind: cp.
The unprofitably ingenious efforts of some ancient writers to derive every kind of metre from the heroic hexameter and the iambic trimeter might be capped, and parodied, by an attempt to turn such a line as Il.
After the dactylic hexameter, the iambictrimeter was the most popular metre of ancient Greece.
Paulinus, patriarch of Aquileia, contemporary with Paul, wrote rhythmical trimeter iambics in a manner peculiar to himself.
The trimeter iambic is a foot longer than our heroic measure.
Monometer, dimeter, and trimeter are not often used for a whole stanza; but they are frequently found in a stanza, introducing variety into it.
A stanza made up of tetrameter alternating withtrimeter is very common.
A trimeter iambic line with a spondee in the last place, which must always be preceded by an iambus, e.
The rhythm seems to have been much more often trochaic [1] than iambic, at least than trimeter iambic, for the tetrameter is more frequently employed.
Quintilian, in commending him, expresses a wish that he had confined himself to the trimeter iambic rhythm.
Accordingly we find the first ten of these epodes composed in alternate verses of iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter, thus:-- "At o Deorum quicquid in coelo regit Terras et humanum genus.
