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

Clearly and spend- is an iamb, but Getting is not.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

For empty sound the rascal swore he Existence would not make a curse, Knew not an iamb from a choree, Although we read him heaps of verse.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry