Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A metrical foot consisting of a trochee followed by an iamb, much used in Greek and Latin poetry.
- n. A foot of verse used in lyric poetry having two unstressed syllables flanked by the two rhythmic stresses marking the first and last syllables of the foot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient prosody, a foot of four syllables, the first and fourth of which are long, the second and third short, the ictus or metrical stress resting either on the first or on the last syllable . The genuine choriamb has a magnitude of six times or moræ (is hexasemic); and as four of these constitute the thesis and two the arsis, or vice versa, it belongs to the diplasic class of feet. Genuine choriambs are rare. Apparent choriambs are catalectic dactylic dipodies
, either of genuine dactyls, as at the end of a pentameter, or of cyclic dactyls, as in Asclepiadic and other logaœdic verses. Anapestic lines analyzed as dactylic series with anacrusis show similar forms. The choriamb takes its name from its apparent composition from a choree (trochee) and an iambus.
Wiktionary
- n. A choriambus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as choriambus.
Etymologies
- Late Latin choriambus, from Greek khoriambos : khoreios, trochee (from khoros, chorus; see chorus) + iambos, iamb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“• Economic Partnership -- a choriamb followed by a dactyl!”
“Classical prosody distinguished several other feet, some of which are occasionally mentioned in treatises on English verse: amphibrach ◡ _ ◡, tribrach ◡ ◡ ◡, pyrrhic ◡ ◡, paeon _ ◡ ◡ ◡, choriamb _ ◡ ◡ _.”
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