iambic
adjective
1. of or consisting of iambic measures.
oh absolutely perfect... i have absolutely no idea what the word means and you go ahead and use the word to define itself. how useless is that? i HATE it when they do that!
2. a foot or measure in poetry consisting of two syllables, an unaccented followed by an accented or a short syllable followed by a long.
and i still don't exactly know what the word means... and certainly not how to use it. an example of something iambic might have been helpful. all the examples of text using the word only describe something as iambic. and they're followed but the word pentameter... what's a pentameter?
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pentameter
noun
1. a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
2. also called elegiac pentameter. classic parody. a verse consisting of two dactyls, one long syllable, two more dactyls, and another long syllable.
3. unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse.
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dactyl
noun
1. prosody. a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, as in gently and humanly.
2. a finger or toe.
see this... all that up there... that's why i'm not a poet. who know there were so many rules for that poetry-type stuff? all too confusing if you ask me. isn't poetry supposed to be free-form or something? a form of expression? i didn't know there was a set procedure (?) for expressing as such.
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