Iambs

This year's intention was to be so strict at blank verse blogging that my comments, too, would be in iambs five. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Well, not by simply repeating the present perfect, but by simply repeating the present perfect as the last three iambs in a line begun with the word ‘generations,’ the accent of which word falls on the penultimate syllable and thereby renders the meter of the first two feet completely ambiguous. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The first two iambs are followed by something almost like a qualitative anapest (in English we do meter based on stress, and here the stress falls on the first syllable of grandeur; in Greek and Latin the stress is based on quality = the length of the syllable, and you can see how much longer than ‘with’ and ‘the’ is the ‘grand’ of grandeur). ❋ Unknown (2010)

So I hear and speak that last line of iambs as emerging of their own accord from a shifting pattern of emphasis: when BU-reau-crats e-MERGED from QUI-et CARS ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who knew, for instance, that iambs an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one make feminine-sounding names, such as Chanel, while the reverse—called a trochee—has the masculine sound of Black & Decker? ❋ Daniel Akst (2011)

Aloud, I hear strict iambs throughout as somewhat stilted and forced. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I, Montese Crandall, rely heavily on such strategies as alliteration, condensation, the strange, ghostly echo of metrical feet, iambs and dactyls, spondees and amphibrachs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So I hear and speak that last line of iambs as emerging of their own accord from a shifting pattern of emphasis: ❋ Unknown (2010)

- F. BADWULFLittle did Fenris know at the time that a Fenris-inspired song using the unstoppable B flat minor/iambs combination was already taking shape! ❋ Unknown (2008)

So start putting iambs into your pentameter now, my friends. ❋ Kat Howard (2009)

The relation between knitting and purling seems to me exactly the same as the relationship between iambs and trochees, for example — the same stitch seen from different angles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You can hear this being sung — or chanted — as a drinking song — the hands coming down on the table in four strong beats per line, while the iambs underneath drive rhythm forward. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is all very well to talk about pseudo-classical iambs, marching daDum, daDum across the page. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I've been before; such comfort, like the sound of consecutive iambs to the nostalgic ear. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2009)

There were no circles under our eyes, but octagons & trapezoids; all night the barbaric yawn of feral iambs kept us chewing on our blankies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

BTW- I always hear iambs when I pedal... nerd alert! ❋ Bardiac (2009)

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? ❋ Aleclair (2006)