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).
Rhythm. The basic unit of an iambic tetrameter poem is the iamb, a very specific kind of poetic rhythm. An iamb is two syllables of sound, the first syllable unstressed and the second one stressed.Iambic tetrameter consists of four iambs per line, so the rhythm of a poem written in iambic tetrameter sounds like da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM..he basic unit of an iambic tetrameter poem is the iamb, a very specific kind of poetic rhythm. An iamb is two syllables of sound, the first syllable unstressed and the second one stressed.