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    Iambus or iambic poetry was a genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars...
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  • Iamb (redirect from Iambus)
    Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to: Look up iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iamb (poetry) Choliamb Iambus (genre) Iambic trimeter Iambic tetrameter...
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    musical definition, 'elegy' is a metrical definition, whereas 'iambus' refers to a genre and its characteristics subject matter. (...) The fact that these...
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    symphonic poem, “Dithyramb” in 1909, revised in 1948 by Kurt Atterberg. Iambus (genre) Thriambus Wells, John C. (2000) [1990]. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary...
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    Callimachus presented a toned-down, less aggressive version of the archaic iambus. Horace avoids direct allusions to Callimachus, a fact which has sometimes...
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  • Gnomic poetry (category Genres of poetry)
    Greek Literature, 1985. ISBN 0-521-21042-9, cf. Chapter 5, "Elegy and Iambus", p. 117 and onwards, for a treatment of Theognis, Solon, and others. Murray...
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    should bite the pilot on the shin—fragment 28 Hipponax composed within the Iambus tradition which, in the work of Archilochus, a hundred years earlier, appears...
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    Urdu poetry (section Genres)
    Masnavi مثنوی is a poem written in couplets in bacchic tetrameter with an iambus for last foot. The topic is often romance. Mir Taqi Mir and Sauda wrote...
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    Thasos. Although the Suda states that Semonides composed elegy as well iambus, none of his elegiac poetry has survived. If the encyclopedia's information...
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  • "lyric poetry" in modern criticism, are excluded—namely, the elegy and iambus which were performed with flutes. The Nine Lyric Poets are traditionally...
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