On the Iamb Meaning?

: a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (as in above)

How do you use iamb in a sentence?

The most common characteristic feet of English verse are the iamb in two syllables and the anapest in three. Hughes rejected the Latinate and courtly iamb in favour of bludgeoning trochees and spondees. Later that year, he founded the IAMB (International Anti-Militarism Bureau).

What is in an iamb?

An iamb is a metrical foot of poetry consisting of two syllables—an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, pronounced duh-DUH. An iamb can be made up of one word with two syllables or two different words.