Translation for '
iambus' from English to Bulgarian
| NOUN | an iambus | iambuses / iambi |
| SYNO | iamb | iambus |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
- Nothing of his work, however, survives except one iambic fragment (see below) and this is not from a comedy but instead seems to belong within the Iambus tradition.
- Although the "Suda" states that Semonides composed elegy as well iambus, none of his elegiac poetry has survived.
- The iambic distich is the basis of many poems of a genre known as Iambus, in which the poet abuses and censures individuals or even communities, whether real or imaginary.
- Possibly he became involved in iambus via the cult of Dionysus.
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