抑よく揚よう格かく

noun

iamb; iambic foot

Technical term in poetry for a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Used in discussions of Western and Japanese poetic meter.

• シェイクスピアのソネットは主おもに抑よく揚よう格かくで書かかれている。

  Shakespeare's sonnets are mainly written in iambic meter.