| 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. |
| The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable. |
| They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem. |
| 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. |
