Sentence examples similar to iambic unit from inspiring English sources
The ancient Greek dramatists developed two distinct kinds of metres: "stichic" forms (i.e., consisting of "stichs," or lines, as metrical units) such as the iambic trimeter for the spoken dialogues; and lyric, or strophic, forms (i.e., consisting of stanzas), of great metrical intricacy, for the singing and chanting of choruses.
Heroic couplet, a couplet of rhyming iambic pentameters often forming a distinct rhetorical as well as metrical unit.
The terza rima, which is Dante's basic unit for the poem, transfers naturally enough to English iambic pentameter, which is not strange to our ears, and the point is, as James says, to make the poem flow in English as it did in Italian.
One could set whole paragraphs as almost-regular iambic verse.
(James used iambic pentameter).
(It was perfect iambic pentameter).
The metre is often iambic pentameter.
It is anapestic tetrameter, not iambic pentameter.
"Iambic pentameter just comes out of them.
The Waste Land is practically iambic pentameter".
