iamb

In this case, each iamb is underscored with a flap step.

The smell of Iamb filled the room as the stew began to warm.

A twist brought him to his knees, bleating now like a scared Iamb.

The reverse of an iamb is called a trochee.

Iamb is a band from the Central Coast of California.

Was 1 supposed to get so choked up with gratitude that I went meekly to the slaughter like a good little iamb?

Your daughter always bleeps like a Iamb, and young Sam had just fallen asleep.

I mean, he's such a mild iamb one wouldn't dream of anything of that kind."

The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest.

The iamb, for example, is the most natural form of rhythm in the English language, and generally produces a subtle but stable verse.

At the mention of Iamb she let out a throaty murmur of pleasure.

They've welcomed me back like a strayed iamb."

Each line in this form has ten syllables, with every two syllables equal to one foot (iamb).

However, an iambic word show its underlying iamb when it is followed by -ta:

In accentual-syllabic verse an iamb is a foot that has the rhythmic pattern:

Iambic pentameter must always contain only five feet, and the second foot is almost always an iamb.

The IAMB tried to insist on certain financial controls, with limited success.

Here, iamb refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Rather than try to match each iamb with a quaver, the music lays out a general mood beneath the poetry or imitates its fundamental rhythm.

The word 'attempt' is a natural iamb:

A siir or cheer is a type of metrical foot that roughly corresponds to an iamb.

"The door fits snugly into the Iamb.

"Mary had a little Iamb!"

(An iamb is a two-syllable unit with the accent on the second syllable; five iambs to a line.)

Davey clapped him on the back and speared a chunk of meat from the roasting Iamb as they passed.