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  • Iamb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    A line of iambic pentameter comprises five consecutive iambs. Iambic trimeter is the metre of the spoken verses in Greek tragedy and comedy. In English accentual-syllabic verse, iambic trimeter is a ...
  • Iambic pentameter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Although strictly speaking, iambic pentameter refers to five iambs in a row (as above), in practice, poets vary their iambic pentameter a great deal, while maintaining the iamb as the most common foot
  • Shakespearean Verse and Prose

    Iambic pentameter: A ten-syllable line consisting of five iambs is said to be in iambic pentameter ("penta" = five). Its stress pattern (five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables) is conventionally ...
  • iambic - Definitions from Dictionary.com

    adj. Consisting of iambs or characterized by their predominance: iambic pentameter. n. An iamb. A verse, stanza, or poem written in iambs. Often used in the plural.
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  • Spondee (spondaic): =

    Examples of Iambs, Trochees, Spondees, Dactyls, and Anapests Once we know what stress is, we can note that many words and phrases in English naturally fall into iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls, or ...
  • Sonnet Glossary

    A meter in which there are five iambs (pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables) in each line. An iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
  • Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry

    Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry. English poetry employs five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. The meters are iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests and dactyls.
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    The words ''annoy,'' ''fulfill,'' ''pretend,'' ''regard,'' and ''serene'' are all iambs because the first syllable of each word is unstressed (or unaccented) and the second syllable is stressed (or ...

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