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Meanings of iamb in English
Synonyms
Examples for "iambus"
Examples for "iambus"
1
The genitive in Saxon would be mannes, a trochee; in English, of man, an iambus.
2
Never take an iambus as a Christian name.
3
The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
4
He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.
5
The elegy and iambus contain the germ of the lyric style, though they do not themselves come under that head.
Usage of iamb in English
1
They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.
2
Should properly be called a double iamb or ionic minor since 'good-bye' is double-stressed:
3
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.
4
The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle.
5
Some very obvious but nonetheless interesting observations about how English is spoken-meet metre-the iamb-the iambic pentameter-Poetry Exercises 1 & 2
6
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee.
7
Five iambs and an anapest was the beat he tramped to now.
8
Matilda was pulling a Iamb chop back into the kitchen on a string.
9
In all of these examples the metrical pattern is the same: five consecutive iambs.
10
At the end of four hours take up the Iamb.
11
Put five iambs next to one another, and they look, and sound, like this:
12
Then she rested from sorrow, and Jesus folded the little Iamb in his own bosom.
13
No one was snarling in iambs or trochees.
14
For the next few days, take lots of iambs for a walk and see where their feet lead you.
15
The Great Iamb (and other binary feet)
16
Augustan poets marshalled their iambs
Frequent collocations
Iamb through the time