| The iamb in this line of blank verse is reversed, in imitation of Cordelia's unsprung life, into a trochee with shortened unstressed syllables. |
| Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous. |
| They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem. |
| The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle. |
| A renowned Shakespearean actor, he hits every iamb, every crisp consonant, like a hurdler running to glory. |
| I hadn't futzed with an iamb in ages, and the words just dog-paddled around the page, senselessly. |
