iamb
Example Sentences
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All I can say is, iamb happy to have been there for it.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
That’s the spirit of the terrible, wonderful “Desperate Measures”: Have iamb, will travel.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017
Standing at the front of the book, that final iamb, so exquisitely delayed, serves as an introduction to a style that puts profound weight on individual words.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2013
They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
