Examples of 'iambic' in a sentence

Meaning of "iambic"

iambic (adjective) - describes a metrical foot in poetry consisting of two syllables, with the stress on the second syllable, commonly used in sonnets and other forms of poetry
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  • Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]
  • Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.
  • An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.

How to use "iambic" in a sentence

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I think the iambic pentameter helps me to remember it.
They read their vows in iambic pentameter.
And iambic is where the accent goes.
This guys knows his iambic pentameter.
An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
One such meter is the iambic tetrameter.
Iambic pentameter could be my absolute demise.
He is writing a history of the island in iambic verses.
Writing in iambic pentameter is difficult and takes practice.
And bash out a speech in iambic pentameter.
Write a note in iambic pentameter asking to take her to a performance.
And he would make up lines in iambic pentameter.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
Wrote his animal fables in iambic verse.
Petrova and the iambic pentameter are not soul mates.

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Adjacent to the alarm is the digital iambic generator.
Start reading everything in iambic by emphasizing every second syllable.
I did not have time to bash out a speech in iambic pentameter.
Not speaking in iambic pentameter might be a step in the right direction.
Mankind has lost its iambic pentameter.
She employs mainly a formal meter that is heavily iambic.
It also works best in iambic pentameter.
The iambic pentameter is the most common way of writing poetry.
Maybe they do not like his iambic pentameter.
The iambic pentameter.
Still iambisizing the iambic pentameter.
And i learned that iambic pentameter is and why it sounds so good to human ears.
They are written in iambic pentameter.
Written in iambic pentameter like a Shakespearean sonnet.
And a couplet in iambic pentameter.
Only rarely it is fully iambic.
You were charged with practising iambic pentameter without a licence.
These two latter genres were elegiac poetry and iambic poetry.
You wrote it in iambic pentameter.
A sonnet is a lyrical form of poetry that contains fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.
This poem is written in an iambic trimeter with three quatrains.
The final line of each stanza is written in iambic hexameter.
I tried to mix up the iambic pentameter with a little haiku motif.
Dryden wrote the play in closed couplets of iambic pentameter.
There the laws of the iambic metre are fully explained.
The manuscript is written in the poetic meter iambic septenarius.
This was an iambic pentameter.
How often do you get to see teenagers speak iambic pentameter.
Written in iambic pentameter.
Everything that comes out of his mouth is like an iambic pentagram.
I tried to mix up the iambic pentameter Thank you.
The poem is written in blank verse that is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Iambic pentameter in Shakespeare is like a heartbeat.
She trusts the girls mastering their iambic pentameters.
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald.

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