noun
- verse or poetry written in iambic meter
Usage: literary
Examples
- Shakespeare’s sonnets are written in iambics.
- The poet preferred iambics for their natural rhythm.
- Students analyzed the iambics in Milton’s Paradise Lost.
- Her collection featured both free verse and traditional iambics.
- The workshop focused on writing iambics and other metrical forms.
- Classical iambics follow a strict pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.