iamb|iambs in English

noun

(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)

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1. Definition of Alexandrine : a line of verse of 12 syllables consisting regularly of 6 iambs with a caesura after the third iamb Other Words from Alexandrine Example Sentences Learn More about Alexandrine …

2. Accentual vs Quantitative Verse and Iambs

3. ‘Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of Anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.’ More example sentences ‘They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.’

4. Iambs in Accentual verse: Accentual verse is poetry in which the meter derives from the stress, or …

5. What does Alcaic-verse mean? A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus; consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls

6. Next to a dactyl or anapest, an Amphibrach will typically be perceived as an iamb (or trochee) plus an unrhythmical short syllable

7. But a line with iambs and trochees cannot feature dactyls or Anapests, and vice versa, because they are not equal in length

8. The term iamb takes on a different meaning depending on the type of verse in which it’s used: Accentual verse or quantitative verse

9. Anapests are rare in spoken English, and in English-language poetry Anapests are far less common than dactyls, iambs, and trochees.

10. ‘Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of Anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.’

11. Mixing Iambs and Anapests (and also Trochees and Dactyls) works really well in a story because, as in the lines above, a reader never really notices (unless they are specifically looking) if there are one or two UNstressed syllables in between the STRESSED ones.

12. The Amphibrach, laid out on this scheme, would coincide with the dactyl, as there are but three possible zones for foot elements: the zone of the limiting sensation (always occupied by the accented syllable), the zone of the contraction phase (occupied by the unaccented syllables of the iamb and anapæst), and the zone of the relaxation phase

13. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or Anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8)