Iamb

What is Iamb?


1.

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


79

Random Words:

1. -n The sensation one experiences while cleaning one's ear canal with a Q-tip. Time for a shower and Q-gasm. See orgasm, q-tip, e-..
1. Slang term for budweiser. Often used by studs who want to get higher than they usually are and pick up more chicks than they usually do...
1. an electron in the excited state Mr. Koehn "the electron became excited" Mike "you mean it's now an erectron?"..