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IAMBIC

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 213 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IAMBIC , the
term
  employed in prosody to denote a succession of verses, each consisting of a foot or metre called an iambus iia/3os). formed of two syllables, of which the first is short and the second
long
  (. ). After the dactylic hexameter, the iambic t rimeter was the most popular metre of ancient
Greece
 . Archilochus is said to have been the inventor of this iambic verse, the rpi/.Lrpos consisting of three iambic feet. In the Greek tragedians an iambic line is formed of six feet arranged in obedience to the following
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
  language runs more naturally in the iambic metre than in any other. The normal
blank verse in
English
  is founded upon an iambic basis, and Milton's line
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
  care has to be exercised to recollect that all ascriptions of classic names to modern forms of rhymed or blank verse are merely approximate. The octosyllabic, or four-foot iambic metre, has found
great
  favour in English verse founded on old romances. Decasyllabic iambic lines rhyming together form an " heroic " metre.


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