and Terence, namely iambic shortening or brevis brevians, where the syllables ab ex- are scanned as two short syllables. The long e in veniet is another Plautine feature.

Accentual-syllabic iambic trimeter

In English and similar accentual-syllabic metrical systems, a line of iambic trimeter consists of three iambic feet. The resulting six-syllable line is very short, and few poems are written entirely in this meter.

The 1948 poem "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

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