iamb

Example Sentences

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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

And since no such definite musical valuation can be given to English feet, a Greek iamb and an English iamb are obviously different.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

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