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 unstressed syllable, then a stressed one. The iamb is the most common kind of foot in English poetry. Here are three examples of words that have an iambic rhythm (bah-BAH). Here's a sentence written in iambic meter: His noisy snoring woke the neighbors' dog.. Bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH.oetry meter-stressed syllables and the iambic foot. 1  When we say the word apple, we stress the first syllable, the ap part. 2  When we say the word fantastic, we stress the second syllable. 3  above (we say, a-BOVE). 4  support (we say, sup-PORT). 5  hurray (we say, hur-RAY).