Iamb

What is Iamb?


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In poetry, a Metrical Foot that has an unstressed (short) syllable followed by a long (stressed) syllable.

An iamb, when diagrammed, looks somewhat like this: ^ '

Iambic Pentameter is an iambic verse used by Shakespeare, his colleagues and imitators, and by countless romantic poets throughout the ages.

A Poem about Poetry in Iambic Tetrameter

The Iamb! the Trochee! can't you see

they're different kinds of poetry

Oh no, you say, they're types of verse.

So I was cursed until the end

Oh, God! Oh, Friend, can you help me

Release myself from agony?

See poem, shakespeare, jonson, thou, romantic, romantical


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