dimeters

Following the law of binary movement (the alternation of arsis and thesis), the accent is made to shorten long syllables and to lengthen short ones, in such wise that the verses, while using the external form of iambic dimeters, are purely rhythmic.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

The daily hymn for None in the Roman Breviary, comprises (like the hymns for Terce and Sext) only two stanzas of iambic dimeters together with a doxology varying according to the feast or season.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The meter he selected, a strophe consisting of four iambic dimeters, was so popular that a multitude of hymns were composed with the same verse scheme, and are called hymni Ambrosiani.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

This office, the work of a pope, appeared in the eleventh century in the Roman breviaries, and soon enjoyed widespread circulation; all its verses are iambic dimeters, but the rhythm does not as yet coincide with the natural accent of the word, and many a verse has a syllable in excess or a syllable wanting.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

"Magnificat", etc. (Rome, 1904), a royal 8vo of 827 double-column pages, containing homilies and commentaries on the Magnificat distributed through every day of the year, prefaced by the Latin paraphrase of Urban VIII, in thirty-two iambic dimeters; Coleridge,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

It comprises four strophes of four iambic dimeters rhymed in couplets, e.g. Rerum Creator optime,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The so-called hymni Ambrosiani bear witness to this fact, as they are identical in outer form with the hymns of St. Ambrose; while each strophe consists of four iambic dimeters, as a rule, eight strophes form a hymn.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Both these iambic dimeters probably sprang from the versus saturnius, the favourite metre of the profane popular poetry of the Romans.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The strophe is made of four iambic dimeters (eight syllables).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

For their form, it may suffice to say that of those given by Bartsch [179] the first is in seven-lined stanzas, rhymed _aaaabab_, the _a_-rhyme lines being iambic dimeters, and the _b_'s monometers.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889