iambic
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Iambic hexameter verse is integrated with rap-style couplets.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2013
“The best first-act finale since Attila the Hun in Iambic Pentameter. Now, shall we purchase some snacks?”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
And in that varying musical form there are three degrees—first, the Iambic, nearest real speech—second, the Lyrical dialogue, farther off—third, the full Chorus—utmost removal.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
When honor at Philippi fell A prey to brutal passion, I regret to say that my feet ran away In swift Iambic fashion.
From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Field, Roswell Martin
Athalie is a Tragedy in rhyme, consisting of six Iambic feet, similar to the Alexandrine verse found occasionally in our English poets at the termination of a sentence or paragraph.
From Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) by Donkersley, J.
Vocabulary lists containing iambic
Poetry: Structure and Meter
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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Shakespeare
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