iambic literary definition
An iamb is a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables).Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare). This excerpt is an example of iambic pentameter, which is the most commonly used meter in poetry and verse. It consists of five iambic feet in a line as shown in bold here. Shakespeare is very famous for using this type of meter in his plays and poems.