Sentence examples for iambic rhythm from inspiring English sources

The iambic rhythm had been drummed into him until it became instinctual.

The spondaic foot (two stressed syllables) in the first line is a common variation in iambic rhythm.

Shaw also imposes iambic rhythm on the dialogue, although over a more forgivable four pages rather than Dane's four acts.

Yes, after she has finished a paragraph she performs it, because she likes to give sentences an audibly iambic rhythm.

The melody is fragmented and appears in various guises, perhaps most notably in its climactic: "Gaude, Gaude" (Rejoice! Rejoice!)" whose iambic rhythm inevitably suggests a heartbeat.

He would ride his bike up and down the pavement outside the rehearsal rooms to try and get the iambic rhythm.

Also suited to the cadence of the English language, iambic rhythms, especially iambic tetrameter and pentameter, are the preeminent metres of English verse.

Shakespeare's language, with its rolling iambic rhythms, has been replaced with Ms. Oakes's rhymed phrases.

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

That is to say, one does not flirt with traditional metres in a syllabic poem - indeed one struggles at times to avoid them - whereas it may be perfectly reasonable, in a certain kind of free verse, to allow iambic rhythms to creep in.

Indeed, the iambic rhythms of "high crimes and misdemeanors" derive from that far-off time.