The "iamb" series makes visual reference to Josef Strau, an artist who uses lamps in his sculptures, and with whom Ms. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Which would make it a spondee and an iamb, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.] Reference
With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The widow and her children went home without so much as an iamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Friday Fillip — Slaw] Reference
More than half of the verses are iambic senarii, the next commonest being troch.septen. and iamb. octon. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
And since no such definite musical valuation can be given to English feet, a Greek iamb and an English iamb are obviously different. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
INVERSION, the substitution of a trochee for an iamb or of a dactyl for an anapest (or vice versa), 51, 187 ff.; a misleading term; see. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
SUBSTITUTION (1) replacing one rhythmic unit by its temporal equivalent, as an iamb by an anapest or by a trochee, etc., 20; called also. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Since Greek and Latin prosody was primarily quantitative, that is, based upon syllabic length, and every long syllable was theoretically equal to two short syllables, an iamb or. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
L.Max. pos. lags in f.p. of iamb.pent. in order 8 13 9 6. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Which shifts through two lines to a final iamb “to VIEW”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Ask John Hagel and John Seely Brown – Knowledge@Wharton › iamb not kidding. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · iamb not kidding.] Reference
A renowned Shakespearean actor, he hits every iamb, every crisp consonant, like a hurdler running to glory. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
Every syllable and mark of punctuation, every iamb and line break and word choice feels earthquakingly right. From Wordnik.com. [Paste Magazine] Reference
The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
In the case of the iamb the unaccented syllable occurs at the top of the movement, at the very beginning of the contraction phase (A, in. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Never mind, honey iamb. From Wordnik.com. [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference
June 30, 2006 at 4:10 am iamb. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Wars Take Two « UDreamOfJanie] Reference
Friend is a strong word, iamb. From Wordnik.com. [500! « UDreamOfJanie] Reference
‹ Asilomar Memories • iamb not kidding. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · MetaFatigue] Reference
Is the imperial iamb laid to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke] Reference
Spondee on spondee, iamb on choriamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke] Reference
Again at these mine innocent iamb-lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst, 5. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
"Mutafá'ilun" (UU - U -), anapæst + iamb. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
‹ iamb not kidding. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge? Ask John Hagel and John Seely Brown – Knowledge@Wharton] Reference
Inkblurt · iamb not kidding. inkblurt. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · iamb not kidding.] Reference
"What's an iamb, grandmother?". From Wordnik.com. [Poetic Justice] Reference
“Mutafá‘ilun” (UU — U —), anapæst + iamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
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