They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem. |
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A renowned Shakespearean actor, he hits every iamb, every crisp consonant, like a hurdler running to glory. |
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I hadn't futzed with an iamb in ages, and the words just dog-paddled around the page, senselessly. |
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The First World War loomed large in her mind, and in the traditional rules of poetry, in the exigencies of rhyme and iamb, she found a logic that had gone missing from her world. |
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The iamb in this line of blank verse is reversed, in imitation of Cordelia's unsprung life, into a trochee with shortened unstressed syllables. |
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The IAMB was supposed to supervise the CPA's control and expenditure of Iraq's oil wealth, but for months the US resisted making any concessions to the body. |
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