The modern convenience that cell phones provide is responsible for everyone's increased daily use. According to the Morningside Recovery Rehabilitation Center, the average American spends 144 minutes a day using his or her phone during a 16-hour period.
Iamb (poetry) An iamb /ËaÉªÃ¦m/ 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).
An iamb is a metrical unit, or a foot of meter, made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (alive, forget, a dog). Pentameter refers to the number of iambs in the line (penta is the Greek word for five, as in a pentagon). So there are five iambs in a line of iambic pentammeter. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. Here are two examples from Romeo and Juliet. (' bold ' means stressed and ' italics ' means unstressed). My grave is like to be my wed ding bed.