iambic

Examples

• All

• Perhaps the characters are strong, the dialogue is realistic, and the word choice is melodic and in perfect iambic pentameter.

  Academic text (2009)

• Again, personal reminiscence reminds "you" - the reader of transgressive youth in steady iambic pentameter: "So was I once myself a swinger of birches."

  Academic text (2008)

• How many of you know what iambic pentameter is?

• There's almost no blank verse, no iambic pentameter in Bishop She.

• The first line of the poem is almost entirely regular and could be scanned as strict iambics using Frost's below-the-line notation.

  Academic text (2016)

• Thus were the meters created: alcaic, asclepiad, hexameter, iambic, trochaic, as well as the stanza forms: the Sapphic, the Pindaric, etc.

  Academic text (2007)

• The surrounding poems tend, moreover, either towards conventional iambic meter, in which stress alternates with unstress, or truly accentual meters, in which beats are clear and syllables need not be counted.

  Academic text (2016)

• In Shakespeare's works, many lines are written in iambic pentameter, creating a rhythmic flow.

• The teacher explained that an iambic foot consists of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed.

• An example of iambic verse can be found in the lines where each pair of syllables follows the unstressed-stressed pattern.

Compounds

I

iambic senarius

• Literature

9.9

A line of six short and long beats used in ancient Latin plays

I

iambic trimeter

• Literature

9.9

A line of poetry with three pairs of syllables that go weak then strong

P

pure iambic trimeter

• Literature

9.9

A line of poetry with six short-long beats and no rhythm changes allowed

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology