Sentence examples for iambic beat from inspiring English sources

The last line of this stanza has six words, each in an iambic beat; there is a caesura after three, marked by a semi-colon.

Mandelbaum's version feels like poetry -- it has the same strong iambic beat that Dante's does -- and his lines have great rhythmic vigor and clarity.

His work with Shakespeare (he's logged in a couple dozen Shakespeare roles in the California Shakespeare Theater alone) has given him a feel for the iambic beat of the Bard's blank verse — the beat that mimics the rhythms of the heart.

Small Latin and less Greek, all English yours, dear lad, local, word-blessed, language loved best; the living human music on our tongues, young, old, who we were or will be, history's shadow, love's will, our heart's iambic beat, brother through time; full-rhyme to us.

Moreover the metrical poem (emphatic iambic beat) attempts to reinforce its moralizing by rhyming; even those are predictable and seem sponsored by Dr. Seuss.

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

Stephen Mitchell's lean, energetic translation of Homer's ILIAD (Free Press, $15.99) features a "minimally iambic five-beat line" and strips away hundreds of lines of "probable interpolations" printed in other modern texts.

After that, he wrote a program to search for tweets that were written in iambic pentameter (10 beats to the line in a heartbeat rhythm), by referencing every word in each tweet received against the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, an online resource produced by Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science that identifies the stresses in words.

Trochee has two beats like iambic, but it is a stressed beat followed by an unstressed beat.

Technically the form is iambic pentameter, five beats per line, but I hate that phrase: it scares people off.

Use the same iambic pentameter meter as the Shakesperean sonnet.