Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHO-LI-AM'BIC
CHO-LES'TER-INE, or CHO-LES'TER-INCHON'DRO-DITE
CHO-LI-AM'BIC, n. [L. choliambi.]
A verse in poetry having an iambic foot in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last. – Bentley.
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