The Iambic trimeter, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English poetry, it refers to a meter with three iambic feet.
In ancient Greek poetry and Latin poetry, an iambic trimeter is a quantitative meter, in which a line consists of three iambic metra. Each metron consists of the pattern | x – u – |, where "–" represents a long syllable, "u" a short one, and "x" an anceps (either long or short). Resolution was common, especially in the first two metra of the line, so that any long or anceps syllable except the last could be replaced by two short syllables (see for example Euripides#Chronology), making a total of 13 or more syllables. It is the most common meter used for the spoken parts (as opposed to the sung parts) of Ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays. It is also common in iambus or 'blame poetry', although it is not the only meter for that genre.[1]
In Latin, the iambic trimeter was adapted for the spoken parts of Roman plays, especially Roman comedy. The form used in Roman comedy is usually known as the iambic senarius. The iambic trimeter was also used in the Epodes of Horace, the fables of Phaedrus, the proverbs of Publilius Syrus, and the tragedies of Seneca the Younger.
In the accentual-syllabic verse of English, German, and other languages, however, the iambic trimeter is a meter consisting of three iambs (disyllabic units with stress on the second syllable) per line, making a line of six syllables.
three iambic feet. In ancient Greek poetry and Latin poetry, an iambictrimeter is a quantitative meter, in which a line consists of three iambic metra...
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The iambic dimeter ends with brevis in longo, the short syllable a in pectora becoming long by the addition of a pause. Here an iambictrimeter forms...
last foot of the line is always an iamb: | .... u – |. As an example of the comic version of the iambictrimeter, here are the opening lines of Aristophanes'...
feet, e.g. hendecasyllable. In some kinds of metre, such as the Greek iambictrimeter, two feet are combined into a larger unit called a metron (pl. metra)...
Look up trimeter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In poetry, a trimeter (Greek for "three measure") is a metre of three metrical feet per line. Examples:...
the choral odes. For the metre, the spoken parts mainly use the iambic (iambictrimeter), described as the most natural by Aristotle, while the choral...
rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambictrimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance...
famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets, John Milton in his Paradise Lost, and William Wordsworth in The Prelude. As lines in iambic pentameter...
the iambic distichs invented by Archilochus. Accordingly, the first ten of these epodes are composed in alternate verses of iambictrimeter and iambic dimeter...
consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambictrimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each...
anapestic tetrameter, though iambs are sometimes used to delineate inferior arguments; episodes – sections of dialogue in iambictrimeter, often in a succession...
substitutions in iambic verse. In strict iambic pentameter, anapaests are rare, but they are found with some frequency in freer versions of the iambic line, such...
common are iambic senarii and trochaic septenarii. As far as is known, iambic senarii were spoken without music; trochaic septenarii (and also iambic septenarii...
written in a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambictrimeter. It typically adopts a xaxa, xbxb rhyme scheme with...
Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm, iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each metron being...
first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambictrimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. Assonance...
Saturnian. Poetic dramatic dialogue, whether in English iambic pentameter or Greek iambictrimeter, also tends to be stichic in nature. Look up stichic in...
The hymnal stanza consists of alternating rhymes with the iambictrimeter and the iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. An example can be found...
of alternating lines of iambic (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambictrimeter (six syllables), known...
Subject(s) fate, doom, seafaring, superstition Form Ballad Meter iambic tetrameter and iambictrimeter Rhyme scheme abcb Publisher J. & A. Arch Publication date...
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