iambus

Example Sentences

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Sometimes Mr. Wolfert will offer genuinely persuasive analyses, like dark and insightful readings of Antony’s speech in “Julius Caesar” or a section of “Henry V,” but mostly the iambs gum up his own story.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2017

In one sequence, the music suddenly provides a series of pulsating iambs; but they’ve been sounding quite a few times before Ms. Bouder, hanging from Mr. Ramasar’s arms, finally matches them with iambic footwork.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2014

If you have not thought much about iambs and trochees, or denotation and connotation, or synecdoche and metonymy in recent years, you are in for a day tripper’s version of literary spelunking.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2011

A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without the translation, the vuvv’s ode, its scratchy iambs and dactyls, sound like someone walking forcefully in corduroys.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson