iambus
Example Sentences
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The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
“And yēt,” is a complete iambus; but anyet is, like spirit, a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the arsis or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
In the fourth place, it may contain some other foot than the regular iambus.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
His imagination is too bold to be confined by the petty limits of trochee or iambus.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
“Thĕy woŭld hāzard”—furnishes an anapæst for an iambus.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
