Short meter
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(Hymnol.)

iambic verses or lines, the first, second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the initials S. M.

See also: Meter

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No references found			To give an example, in the case of the Athenian dramatist, Euripides, it has been shown that variations in the iambic trimeter (a meter similar in structure and in function to Shakespeare's iambic pentameter) occur more frequently in the later tragedies. Bridging the abyss by Olcott, Marianina / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table The classicizing metrical experiments of the Renaissance may have as mixed political bearings as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classicizing efforts using unrhymed hexameter and (in Goethe's case, like Spenser's) iambic trimeters. Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England by Hieatt, A. Kent / Renaissance Quarterly			i.d. i.e. I.E.D. i.q. i.t.a. i.v. i.w. I.W.W. i/c I/O IA Ia-=scedil.gif=-i Ia. IAA IAAF Iacrimation IADB IAEA IAF Iago Iagophthalmia iamatology IAMAW iamb iambic Iambic trimeter* Iambical Iambically Iambize iambus Ian Douglas Smith Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming Ian Smith Ian Wilmut ianfu Ianthina IAP Iapetus IARU IAS Iasi IATA iatralipsis Iatraliptic iatric Iatrochemical Iatrochemist iatrochemistry iatrogenic iatrology			IAMAM IAMANEH Iamantau IAMAP Iamarovka IAMAS Iamashev, Khusain Iamashev, Khusain Mingazetdinovich IAMAT Iamatology IAMAW IAMAW iamb iamb iamb Iambe iambi iambi iambic iambic Iambic hexameter Iambic hexameter Iambic keyer Iambic keyer Iambic meter Iambic meter Iambic pentameter Iambic pentameter Iambic pentametre Iambic tetrameter Iambic trimeter Iambic Verse Iambic Verse Iambical Iambically Iambimatic Iambize Iamblichus Iamblichus of Chalcis Iambol Iambol Iambol District IAMBP iambs iambs Iamburg iambus iambus iambuses iambuses Iambuto IAMC IAMCC IAMCM IAMCO IAMCP IAMCR IAMCS IAMD IAMDI

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Short meter (redirected from Iambic trimeter)

Short meter
(redirected from Iambic trimeter)