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Choliambic Verse

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Choliambic verse is a style of poetic verse in ancient Greek and Latin literature, characterized by a limping or imperfect iambic trimeter, having a spondee as the last foot. It was originally pioneered by the insult-poet Hipponax; the Latin poet Catullus provides a further example.


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