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- noun Plural form of
iamb .
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Examples
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This year's intention was to be so strict at blank verse blogging that my comments, too, would be in iambs five.
April 22nd, 2008 2008
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Well, not by simply repeating the present perfect, but by simply repeating the present perfect as the last three iambs in a line begun with the word ‘generations,’ the accent of which word falls on the penultimate syllable and thereby renders the meter of the first two feet completely ambiguous.
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The first two iambs are followed by something almost like a qualitative anapest (in English we do meter based on stress, and here the stress falls on the first syllable of grandeur; in Greek and Latin the stress is based on quality = the length of the syllable, and you can see how much longer than ‘with’ and ‘the’ is the ‘grand’ of grandeur).
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Who knew, for instance, that iambs an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one make feminine-sounding names, such as Chanel, while the reverse—called a trochee—has the masculine sound of Black & Decker?
The Soul of Brevity Daniel Akst 2011
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So I hear and speak that last line of iambs as emerging of their own accord from a shifting pattern of emphasis: when BU-reau-crats e-MERGED from QUI-et CARS
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And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot.
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Aloud, I hear strict iambs throughout as somewhat stilted and forced.
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I, Montese Crandall, rely heavily on such strategies as alliteration, condensation, the strange, ghostly echo of metrical feet, iambs and dactyls, spondees and amphibrachs.
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- F. BADWULFLittle did Fenris know at the time that a Fenris-inspired song using the unstoppable B flat minor/iambs combination was already taking shape!
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So I hear and speak that last line of iambs as emerging of their own accord from a shifting pattern of emphasis:
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