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Iambic vs Iambically - What's the difference?

iambic | iambically |

As an adjective iambic

is iambic.

As an adverb iambically is

according to iambic meter.

iambic

English

Alternative forms

* iambick (obsolete)

Adjective

(wikipedia iambic) (en adjective)
  • (prosody) Consisting of iambs or characterized by their predominance
  • * 1908 , Frank Gilbert Bruner, The Hearing of Primitive Peoples , page 17
    • [J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic', there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be ' more iambic than it is trochaic.

    Derived terms

    * iambic pentameter * iambic tetrameter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (prosody) An iamb; A line or group of lines of iambs.

    • Antonyms

    * trochaic

    iambically

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • According to iambic meter.
  • * 2001 , David Keppel-Jones, The strict metrical tradition (page 27)
    • First, English phrases tend to open iambically on an unstressed word (article, preposition, or conjunction), as with The rising world'' and ''the waters in the line before us.