iambic
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But Mr. Dylan’s work — “with its iambics, its clackety-clack rhymes, and its scattergun images,” as the critic Robert Christgau wrote — has its own kind of emblematic verbal genius.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2016
In Washington, he talked politics with President Kennedy, iambics with Fellow Poets Carl Sandburg, 83, and Langston Hughes, 59, at a White House luncheon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flowing iambics carry the play forward on the swells and lulls in some of Shakespeare's most exquisite lyrics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, like dying nightingales singing their hearts out while impaled upon the thorn of the everyday world, they poured forth their pain in richly draped iambics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course, it was no less a personage than Julian the Apostate whom, during five acts, I made atone in iambics for having desired to restore to honor the ancient Pagan gods.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul
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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