iamb

• “The "iamb" series makes visual reference to Josef Strau, an artist who uses lamps in his sculptures, and with whom Ms.”

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• “And you can flip around an iamb so that the line begins with a little triplet, or an eighth note and a sixteenth note, which happens a lot—as in “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.””

  Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

• “You can change an initial trochee to an iamb by adding an “And” or an “O.””

  Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

• “With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “The widow and her children went home without so much as an iamb.”

  The Friday Fillip — Slaw

• “In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “Which would make it a spondee and an iamb, I guess.”

  languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.

• “For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb.”

  Middlesex

• “In our understanding, the sonnet seems to be the very shape of thought: in its dense, patterned form it exteriorizes thought; and "I think" or "I thought" is the perfect iamb.”

  Thinking about the Other in Romantic Love

• “The English-speaking foreigner is at first surprised, if he takes to scanning Pushkin's blank verse, to find that there are few substitutions of feet — hardly even a trochee for an iamb.”

  The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov

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