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  • noun Plural form of choriambic.

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  • By the time Whitman appeared, the ear of the average reader—that formidable person—was attuned to anapæsts, dactyls, choriambics, sapphics, rhymed or unrhymed.

    Introduction Harriet Monroe 1917

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