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.

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.

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.

Thus, "iambic pentameter" is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is the "iamb".

It also involves meter (like the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare) and timing (pauses, say, or full stops).