iambic|iambics in English

noun

[i·am·bic || aɪ'æmbɪk]

(Poetry) iambus, foot consisting of two syllables (the first syllable is long and the second short or the first syllable is stressed and the second unstressed); verse composed of iambic feet

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1. Aubade in Rhyming Iambic Pentameter

2. It was written in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter.

3. Ballad stanza is written in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter

4. How many of you know what iambic pentameter is?

5. (2001) ‘Iambic motifs in Alcaeus’ lyrics’, in Iambic Ideas: Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, eds

6. 2 It was written in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter.

7. 3 How many of you know what iambic pentameter is?

8. It's rhymed iambic tetrameter, four beats per line, with some variations.

9. The typical “ballad meter” was an alternation between lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.Ballads were generally written in quatrains with a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB

10. 7 A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.

11. They usually write poetry in heroic couplets , a polished iambic pentameter line.

12. Then he began a speech, and it could have been iambic pentameter.

13. 14 They usually write poetry in heroic couplets , a polished iambic pentameter line.

14. 9 Then he began a speech, and it could have been iambic pentameter.

15. Alexandrine In English, a 12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse

16. 4 Heroic couplet refers to two lines of iambic pentameter rhyming with each other.

17. For example, to describe Shakespeare’s sonnets as having been written in iambic pentameter Acatalectic

18. 17 In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter.

19. In The Sonnagrams (2009), Mohammad Anagrammatizes Shakespeare’s sonnets into all-new English sonnets in iambic pentameter

20. Dryden's solution was a closed Couplet in iambic pentameter that would have a minimum of enjambment

21. An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter

22. This quote from Shakespeare’s " Sonnet 116 " is a great example of a rhymed, closed, iambic pentameter Couplet.

23. But the true aboriginal stroke was Whitman's breaking loose from the iambic collar of traditional English poetry.

24. In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately Acatalectic and catalectic.

25. 16 Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet.