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An iamb is a small beat-shape in poetry: a weak (or short) step, then a strong (or long) one. You can feel it in the English word alive: a-LIVE. People tap it as da-DUM. English poems love this shape. A famous pattern, iambic , is just five iambs in a row — da-DUM five times — and a lot of Shakespeare sits in it. Though actually, real lines bend. Poets skip a stress, or flip one beat, because spoken English is not a drum machine. The iamb is the tidy unit we count with, not a law the mouth always obeys. The opposite beat (strong then weak, DUM-da, as in happy) is a different unit, not an iamb.
抑揚音步(弱拍接強拍;也稱短長格)
組成From French iambe in the mid-1800s, from Latin iambus, from Ancient Greek íambos. It mostly took the place of the older English word iambus, which comes from the same classical origin.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
iambnoun/ˈaɪəm/
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human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyA metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。