Crossword clues for iamb
iamb
- Small foot
- Shelley's foot
- Rhythmic foot
- Poetry foot
- Poetic unit of rhythm
- Poetic part
- Hamlet's "To be," e.g
- Foot in a sonnet
- Foot in a meter
- Byron's foot?
- A metrical unit
- "To be," e.g
- Word that's ironically a trochee
- The Bard's foot
- Sonneteer's unit
- Shakespeare's "to be," e.g
- Rubaiyat bit
- Poetic meter unit
- Poet’s foot
- Poet's metrical foot
- Petrarchan unit
- Pentameter component, often
- Part of da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM
- Part of a poem's meter
- Part of a pentameter?
- One-fifth of "If music be the food of love, play on"
- One of two in "The Grapes of Wrath"
- One of three in "To be or not to be"
- One of Shakespeare's feet
- One of 70 in a Shakespearean sonnet
- Ogden Nash's foot?
- Not-so-big foot?
- Metrical short-long foot
- Metrical foot of two syllables
- Maya Angelou's foot
- It's scanned in poetry
- Hamlet's "To be," for one
- Foot with a short part and a long part
- Foot that's in a meter?
- Foot on a page
- Foot of a poet
- Donne's foot
- Bit of poetic rhythm
- Beat in poetry
- Bard's foot
- Anapest's cousin
- "To be," to poets
- "But, soft!", for instance
- "Behold" or "arise" in poetry
- "Ballade" consists of one
- Shakespeare's foot
- Short-long foot
- Poetic meter
- One foot
- Frost's foot
- Sonnet part
- Da-DUM
- Part of a meter, maybe
- Da-DAH
- Anapest's relative
- Part of a meter
- Poetic foot with a short and a long syllable
- Prosodic foot
- Certain foot
- Sonnet measure
- A foot in a line
- Two-syllable foot
- Foot, to a poet
- Shakespeare's foot?
- Metrical foot, in poetry
- Metric unit
- One foot, to a poet
- Poet's foot
- Foot type
- One-quarter of "Whose woods these are I think I know"
- Vermont but not New Hampshire, e.g.?
- Foot of verse
- One foot in a line
- One of four in "As I Was Going to St. Ives"
- Foot used to keep rhythm?
- "Hurray" or "alas"
- Poetic measure
- Trochee's counterpart
- A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
- Foot for Frost
- Metric foot
- Frost's foot?
- Verse unit
- Short-long foot in verse
- One's book a little bit of poetry
- Old bugger originally found in house? Not anymore!
- Foot injury initially needing a doctor
- A short excerpt of William Blake
- A little bit of William Blake
- Item of poetry penned by William Blake
- Two-syllable poetic foot, often found in pentameter
- Metrical unit, in odes
- Kind of poetic foot
- Foot in a poem
- Sonnet unit
- Pound foot?
- Two-syllable poetic unit
- Songwriter's poetic meter
- Literary foot
- Foot that's part of a meter
- Foot in a line of poetry
- Anapest relative
- Verse foot
- Two-syllable unit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iamb \I"amb\, n. [Cf. F. iambe. See Lambus.] An iambus or iambic. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1842, from French iambe (16c.), from Latin iambus, from Greek iambos (see iambic). Iambus itself was used in English in this sense in 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in "delay"). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where it refers to a foot comprising an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-bove).
Iamb is a band from the Central Coast of California. While it began as a solo recording project by frontman Ross Major, Iamb now performs with various members as a band. The music can be described as a combination of indie, post-rock, or folk music.
The music video for Iamb's first single, "I Don't Care What Happens," has been featured on MTV and MTVu.
Iamb has released a full-length album and a 7" record on independent label Real Love Records
Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to:
Usage examples of "iamb".
Frank once again claimed her while she picked at the boiled leg of Iamb with cauliflower.
Your daughter always bleeps like a Iamb, and young Sam had just fallen asleep.
Gramercy Place, they were unable to get a coherent story of why he had done the disgusting act, for he had lapsed into a stentorian tone of Biblical fervor, pontificating about the blood of the Iamb and the curse of Jezebel and the eternal fires of Perdition.
Willie forgets to eat sometimes, and he talks to himself in iambs, and his silver hair frizzes, and Aunt Easy sometimes has to lead him in from the garden which apparently now grows symbols.
It made no use of the traditional stress-patterned metrics he knew so well, the iambs and trochees and dactyls, the spondees and anapests, out of which Furvain had always built his poems with such swiftness and ease.
For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb.
Willie forgets to eat sometimes, and he talks to himself in iambs, and his silver hair frizzes, and Aunt Easy sometimes has to lead him in from the garden which apparently now grows symbols.