choliambn.
/ˈkəʊlɪamb/ Prosody.
An iambic verse with a spondee or trochee instead of an iambus in the last (sixth) foot; a scazon.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > trimeter > scazon
scazon1672
choliambic1697
scazontica1831
choliamb1844
1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 45 Hipponactean or limping verses, scazons or choliambs.
Derivatives
choliˈambist n. a writer of choliambs.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > poet in specific metre
iambographer1625
blank versifier1746
dactylist1785
hexametrist1797
pentametrist1803
iambist1839
choliambist1847
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii.xxix. 131 The Choliambist Hippônax.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
<
n.1844