iamb
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All I can say is, iamb happy to have been there for it.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
That’s the spirit of the terrible, wonderful “Desperate Measures”: Have iamb, will travel.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017
Standing at the front of the book, that final iamb, so exquisitely delayed, serves as an introduction to a style that puts profound weight on individual words.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2013
For empty sound the rascal swore he Existence would not make a curse, Knew not an iamb from a choree, Although we read him heaps of verse.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry
It is possible to form a unit group in nonsense syllables where the unaccented syllable of the iamb shall be represented not by two syllables, as in the anapæst, but by even three.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo
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