Sentence examples for Iambic meter from inspiring English sources

Meter — what happens when you abandon the ta-TUM rhythm of iambic meter entirely?

Clearly I have a problem with iambic meter — but that's a subject for another post.

The poem is written in the first person and in a regular iambic meter.

If it's not, it still may very well be in iambic meter, which is the most popular meter for closed-form poems.

The lines of these stanzas often open with an unusually harsh, strong beat, and Heaney typically postpones more comfortable iambic meters until a poem has established a trochaic opening as its norm.

Use the same iambic pentameter meter as the Shakesperean sonnet.

Consider Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Carrion Comfort," which follows all rules of the Petrarchan sonnet except for its iambic pentameter meter.[18].[18]

An example of iambic metre is the English ballad, composed of quatrains written in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.

In "Timepiece," the meter (iambic dimeter, a rare one, and hard to pull off effectively) recalls not only that ticking of a clock but the beating of a heart: Do not lose hope.

Archilochian meters (there are four varieties) combine iambic and dactylic meters and are found in Horace's Odes and Epodes.

At other points group dances became studies in scansion, the dancers crossing the stage in footwork that had meter now iambic, now anapestic, with phrase endings as suspenseful and momentous as with the greatest verse speakers.