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Definition of Choriambs
1. choriamb [n] - See also: choriamb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choriambs
Literary usage of Choriambs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools and Private Study by Eduard Munk (1844)
"Thus Horace, who had the nicest sense for rhythmical harmony, separates almost
always by the diaeresis the single choriambs in the ..."
2. The Oedipus tyrannus of Sophocles by Sophocles, Mortimer Lamson Earle (1901)
"The transition from choriambs to the kindred ionics seems to mark (at least in the
... The whirl of the choriambs is followed by the wavering of the ionics, ..."
3. Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the by George Stanley Farnell (1891)
"Usually intro- duced by basis or anacrusis. juxtaposition of emphatic long
syllables, which a succession of choriambs involves, would have a strange effect ..."
4. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on Comparative Grammar by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1874)
"... with the same basis, and one long syllable for close (8, g). e. The Greater
Sapphic consists of two choriambs, preceded by a trochaic ..."
5. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1877)
"... it is plainly not much to.the purpose to talk about choriambs in Milton—though
they are undoubtedly to be found there—but these names of classic feet do ..."
6. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"The effect of the application of this theory is wholesale production of choriambs.
... is made to furnish three choriambs by this process.3 Hermann treated ..."
7. A Study of Metre by Thomas Stewart Omond (1903)
"In Classic verse, the usual type of this metre contained three choriambs, ...
3 But, to an English ear, each of these " choriambs " 1 " Poems," ..."
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