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iamb

noun as in iambic pentameter

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All I can say is, iamb happy to have been there for it.

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That’s the spirit of the terrible, wonderful “Desperate Measures”: Have iamb, will travel.

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You could wish that Mr. Stuelpnagel had found more to work with in the iambs.

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Sometimes Mr. Wolfert will offer genuinely persuasive analyses, like dark and insightful readings of Antony’s speech in “Julius Caesar” or a section of “Henry V,” but mostly the iambs gum up his own story.

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“A Sense of Where You Are:” the mysterious second-person tense, the seesawing iambs — it draws you in.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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