1. iambic - Noun
2. iambic - Adjective
Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
An iambic foot; an iambus.
A verse composed of iambic feet.
A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter. Neil Patrick Harris
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. Howard Nemerov
I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it's held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter whatever else it is, can be a very good glue. It is a very good way to hold things together. It's like 4:4 you know. Robert Pinsky
If the English version is in what, in our youth, we used to speak of affectionately as dear old iambic pentameter, the actors mercifully abstain from reciting it that way; they speak their lines as good, hardy prose. Dorothy Parker
Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard. Orson Welles
Marlowe anticipated Whitman's barbaric yawp by setting up a national PA system of blank verse – a rising iambic system of sound to suit the new success story. Marshall McLuhan