Dimeter

Written by Coelius Sedulius d c 450 in iambic dimeter. ❋ Bls (2009)

This twelfth poem or hymn contains 52 iambic dimeter strophes, and an irregular selection from its 208 lines has furnished four hymns to the Roman Breviary, all of which conclude with the usual Marian doxology "Jesu tibi sit gloria" etc., not composed by Prudentius, slightly varied to make the doxology appropriate for the several feasts employing the hymns. ❋ Bls (2008)

Because the fact is, when we read "The Cat in the Hat," we are not thinking anapestic dimeter, we are not marveling at the ease with which Seuss manipulates this first-grade vocabulary list. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like any other great man who dominates his time, St. Ambrose had many imitators, and it so happened that hymns written by his contemporaries or those who came after him, in the form which he used, that is, the Iambic dimeter, were called "Hymni Ambrosiani". ❋ Bls (2005)

Iambic, Trochaic, and Anapaestic verses are further designated as dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, according to _the number of dipodies_ (pairs of feet) which they contain. ❋ Charles E. Bennett (N/A)

In every stanza there are four short lines of _dactylic dimeter_. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

He is, perhaps, least unsuccessful in his treatment of the Anapaest: the lines do not lack melody, and the natural flexibility of the metre saves them from extreme monotony, though they would have been more successful had he employed the paroemiac line as a solemn and resonant close to the march of the dimeter. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

This twelfth poem or hymn contains 52 iambic dimeter strophes, and an irregular selection from its 208 lines has furnished four hymns to the Roman Breviary, all of which conclude with the usual Marian doxology ( "Jesu tibi sit gloria" etc., not composed by Prudentius), slightly varied to make the doxology appropriate for the several feasts employing the hymns. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Some continue the liturgical tradition of Saint Ambrose, and are written in the Ambrosian iambic dimeter; others are an attempt to enlist the metres of Horace in the service of Christian lyrical poetry. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This versus popularis and the iambic dimeter are the two metres in which most of the early Christian hymns were written, both in Latin and in Greek. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He observes the rules of quantity, but chooses a popular metre, the iambic dimeter, with its regular succession of accented and unaccented syllables, from which arises the so-called alternating rhythm which marks the human step and pulse and is, therefore, the most natural and popular rhythm. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The hymn comprises eight Ambrosian stanzas in classical iambic dimeter verse together with a proper doxology: ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)