1. a metrical foot consisting of four syllables with the pattern long-short-short-long
Usage: poetry; prosody

Examples

• The choriamb creates a distinctive rhythmic pattern in classical verse.
• Students of prosody learn to identify the choriamb among other metrical feet.
• The poet employed choriambs to give the line a lilting quality.
• Ancient Greek poetry frequently used the choriamb in lyric meters.
• A choriamb combines a trochee and an iamb in sequence.
• The choriambic meter was popular in Sapphic stanzas.