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IAMBIC , the term
long (. ). After the dactylic hexameter, the iambic t rimeter was the most popular metre of ancient Greece
scheme :V V V Much of the beauty of the verse depends on the caesura, which is usually in the middle of the third foot, and far less frequently in the middle of the fourth. The English
blank verse in English
And swims or sinks 1 or wades or creeps or flies 1 exhibits it in its primitive form. The ordinary alexandrine of French literature is a hexapod iambic, but in all questions of quantity in modern prosody great
great
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