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iamb

metrical foot
Class type of: foot Q207686

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
trimoraic foot, bisyllabic foot[2]
Subclass of
foot[3]
Described by source
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Sachwörterbuch der Literatur (8 ed.), Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, Small Soviet Encyclopedia, Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Opposite of
trochee[4]
Quantitative metrical pattern
⏑ –[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en x X en iamb en iambus en jambus ar عمبق cs Jamb da jambe de Jambisch de x X de Iambus de Iambos de Jamben el Ίαμβος es yambo fa بلندانجام fi jambi fr x X fr iambe fr ïambe fr iambique
🔖 Identifiers · 25
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85063885
GND ID
4162698-9
BNCF Thesaurus ID
29046
BabelNet ID
00045682n
Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID
8-a832
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.1
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
136316
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/iamb, art/iambe
Freebase ID
/m/019mv0
Georgian Encyclopedia ID
12553
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4926520, 4926488
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
iamb-b1a5ce
Show all 25 identifiers +13
J9U entity ID
987007535991605171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
iamb
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
113887
Lex ID
jambe
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014026383
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2504510
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3916518
Topic's main category
Wikidata item
Treccani ID
giambo
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
giambo
WikiKids ID
Jambe
YSO ID
29700
Yale LUX ID
concept/b0ede9ab-4002-48b5-83b1-a834021bbef5

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 4
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
Subtypes 2
iambic pentameter, iambic trimeter
Belongs to 1
iambic pentameter
Opposite of 1
trochee
Subclass of 1
foot
← FactGrid item ID 1
Levisham
← Opposite of 1
trochee
← Used metre 1
Don Juan
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Summary

iamb is a trimoraic foot[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Treccani's Enciclopedia on line. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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