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. The day a new movie is released. "Hey are you gonna go see the movie on Release Day?" "Probably not, it's gonna be..
1. the act of masturbating. or defecating in ones vagina Dude are you gonna snoq tonight?! hey you wanna snoq all over me? i've been..
1. Slang contraction for "Ain't-it-the-truth", used in northern and central New Jersey, in wide useage by mid 1960s. It is ..