The choriamb is derived from some ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
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As with other Aeolic metrical lines, the asclepiad is built around a choriamb.
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There are a wide range of names for other types of feet, right up to a choriamb, a four syllable metric foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables and closing with a stressed syllable.
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In Sappho and Alcaeus, the three basic metrical groups ��?��?( dodrans or choriambo-cretic ), ��??( choriamb ) and ��?( cretic ) figure importantly, and groups are sometimes joined ( in what is probably a Greek innovation ) by a link anceps.
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In the prosody of English and other modern European languages, " choriamb " is sometimes used to describe four-syllable sequence of the pattern stressed-unstressed-unstressed-stressed ( again, a trochee followed by an iamb ) : for example, " over the hill ", " under the bridge ", and " what a mistake ! ".