ïambic

comparative more ïambic · superlative most ïambic

1. rareRare spelling of iambic.

   For example, the foot is not frequently referred to in studies of rhythmical-metrical organisation of Russian; also, it couldn’t be stated whether the Russian possesses the ïambic or trochaic foots^([sic]).

   2007 December 1, Irina Nesterenko, Stéphane Rauzy, Daniel Hirst, “On the probabilistic modelling of the form~function articulation for prosodic phenomena”, in Mathematics and Social Sciences, Centre d’analyse et de mathématique sociales de l’EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), page 118

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   His improvement in the knowledge of prosody was truly extraordinary; he soon acquired a proficiency in all the varieties of Roman metre, so that he was able to scan the trochaïc and ïambic verses of Terence, before his companions even suspected that they were anything but mere prose.

   1804, Lord Teignmouth, “Memoirs of Sir William Jones”, in Samuel Charles Wilks, editor, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, […], volume I, London: John W. Parker, […], published 1835, page 113

   Klopstock has banished Alexandrines from German poetry; he has substituted in their stead hexameters, and ïambic verses without rhyme, according to the practice of the English, which give much greater liberty to the imagination.[…]The harmony of hexameters, and above all of ïambic verses, when without rhyme, is only natural harmony, inspired by sentiment: it is a marked and distinct declamation; while the Alexandrine verse imposes a certain species and turn of expression, from which it is difficult to get free.

   1813, “Part the Second. On Literature and the Arts”, “Chapter IX. Of Style, and of Versification in the German Language”, in Germany, volume I, London: Printed for John Murray, […], translation of original by Baroness Staël Holstein, pages 289, 290