Word: iamb
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...says. Boudreau, who is writing a collection of poetry for her senior thesis, is no stranger to the more formal and technical aspects of poetry composition. Yet, she says she is especially happy when a physics or math concentrator, who may not completely understand the difference between an iamb and a dactyl, gets the courage to perform an original poem in front of an audience. “A lot of the poems, people will come up to the mike and say, ‘I just wrote this last night,’ [which] they’ve written...
After last week’s production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women at the Agassiz Theater, this weekend The Harvard Classical Club put that venerable playwright on the stage wearing a black beret, sniffing a rose and declaring “iamb the man!” while kicking Aeschylus in the groin in their production of Aristophanes’ The Frogs...
...rhyme, while the third and fourth follow another rhyme (a,a,b,b,a). There are 13 feet, or stressed syllables, to the limerick-no more, no less. The typical foot is an anapest, that is, two unstressed syllables preceding an accented one (da-da-DAH), or sometimes an iamb...
before deciding my lengthy battle with athlete's foot and root rot left my sole too scarred for a frisky chase through the thorny maze of iamb, anapest and trochee...
...become the hallmark of Adams's choruses. Their tone was solid and well-blended; their diction was a model of properly popped consonants. Yet the performance didn't really get off the ground until well into the second half. Like a sonnet reader who calls attention to each iamb, Adams tended to emphasize the repetitive Baroque rhythms at the expense of larger phrases. Part of this problem can be traced to the widespread malady of the pick-up orchestra. This was the usual random group of instrumentalists thrown together to accompany a university choral group and as usual, they plagued...