iamb
IPA: ˈaɪɑm
noun
- (prosody) A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Examples of "iamb" in Sentences
- Which would make it a spondee and an iamb, I guess.
- With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.
- The widow and her children went home without so much as an iamb.
- You can change an initial trochee to an iamb by adding an “And” or an “O.”
- The "iamb" series makes visual reference to Josef Strau, an artist who uses lamps in his sculptures, and with whom Ms.
- And you can flip around an iamb so that the line begins with a little triplet, or an eighth note and a sixteenth note, which happens a lot—as in “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.”
- In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be.