| The iamb in this line of blank verse is reversed, in imitation of Cordelia's unsprung life, into a trochee with shortened unstressed syllables. |
| They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb. |
| 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. |
| Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous. |
| I hadn't futzed with an iamb in ages, and the words just dog-paddled around the page, senselessly. |
| The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable. |
