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 1 I   |          to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any similar
 2 IV  |      measure is still called the iambic or lampooning measure, being
 3 IV  |   stately manner of Tragedy. The iambic measure then replaced the
 4 IV  |     appropriate measure. For the iambic is, of all measures, the
 5 IV  |  conversational speech runs into iambic lines more frequently than
 6 V   |        first who abandoning the "iambic" or lampooning form, generalized
 7 XXII| Euripides each composed the same iambic line. But the alteration
 8 XXII|      heroic poetry, metaphors to iambic. In heroic poetry, indeed,
 9 XXII|          are serviceable. But in iambic verse, which reproduces,
10 XXIV|           On the other hand, the iambic and the trochaic tetrameter