iambic
IPA: ˈaɪɑmbɪk
noun
- (prosody) An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.
adjective
- (prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
Examples of "iambic" in Sentences
- I forgot about the iambic pentameter.
- The iambic pentameter is rather rough.
- That's the definition of iambic pentameter.
- The general meter of the poem is iambic pentameter.
- The last stanza is just a simple rhyme in Iambic Pentameter.
- Dryden wrote the play in closed couplets of iambic pentameter.
- Rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter lines form the heroic couplet.
- Instead of pentameter, the lines were written in iambic tetrameter.
- In the case of Shakespeare, isn't iambic pentameter a form of blank verse
- In English, iambic pentameter is by far the most frequently employed meter.
- A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
- I also left wanting to speak extemporaneously in iambic pentameter, but that is Shagspeare's fault.
- In your graduate studies, did you find out why most of her poetry was written in iambic tetrameter?
- Written in iambic tetrameter, it is better known today by the title “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
- "The twilight hours like birds flew by," is made up of four iambic feet, and is therefore an _iambic tetrameter_.
- In this poem the feet are iambic and there are four of them, consequently we name the meter of this poem _iambic tetrameter_.
- But I hope it shows that what we call iambic pentameter is really, if you count the rest the way you must count it, a kind of slow waltz rhythm.
- When you've got a couple of top-five New York Times best sellers under your belt and you want to do a five hundred page exploration of terrorism in iambic pentameter, go for it.