iambic

Nor do we know clearly what role iambic poetry played in ancient society.

It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet.

And I'd like the answer in 14 lines of iambic pentameter.

Iambic rhythms were felt to be especially suited to this role.

There the laws of the iambic metre are fully explained.

Clearly I have a problem with iambic meter-but that's a subject for another post.

Stumbled a bit over the iambic pentameter but who didn't the first time.

Must we throw these iambic pentameters at our pop kids?

Like common metre, it has stanzas of four iambic lines.

Iambic keyers function in one of at least two major modes.

The story is in iambic pentameter using 10 syllables for every line.

Some of his iambic poetry has seemed repulsive to modern audiences.

Many of these plays were written in verse, particularly iambic pentameter.

The voice droned on with its own form of iambic pentameter.

You don't know the difference between iambic pentameter and a pizza pie.

Traditionally the iambic poet, though he bullies others, is a victim too.

He was the first poet, apparently, who introduced the iambic trimeter.

In fact the surrounding lines by this point have become entirely iambic:

Instead of pentameter, the lines were written in iambic tetrameter.

In either case, when read aloud, such verse naturally follows an iambic beat.

The specific form of verse that Shakespeare used most often is called iambic pentameter.

These lines, however, are not written in iambic heptameter.

Each line is a fourteener, having fourteen syllables and seven iambic feet.

She employs mainly a formal meter that is heavily iambic.

The poem does have a meter: it is called iambic pentameter.

Iambic Pentameter?

Iambic Pentameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of five iambic feet:

As for the plot, it came originally from Sicily; but of Athenian writers Crates was the first who abandoning the 'iambic' or lampooning form, generalized his themes and plots.