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Iamb Poems - Poems about Iamb

Iamb Poems - Examples of all types of poems about iamb to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for iamb.
Premium Member Concrete Forms
...It seems The poetic forms Outnumber the norms Of rhythm, pace and meter As if meeting an old acquaintance But didn’t want to meet her I prefer the Iamb With fingers counting ten Thus, with ......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Would You Like To Meter
...Today I feel iambic! I would say of all the meters, I like it the best. An iamb starts with some soft sound to say then ev'ry second syllable is stressed. Trochees likewise, alternate their str......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Poems For Poets V
...PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Newton Yet Mechanically Rolling Over In His Grave
..."Spotlit center stage, today's modern physicist in the fashionable Armani wardrobe incoherently presents his latest bestseller on 'bent space' to a packed auditorium of wildly adoring moro......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, science,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Vision More Rare
..."The opposite worldviews of Reality and romance attract not -- the base of the former being Facts." -- epistemology, the scientific theory of Knowledge, as opposed to "just a theory" * ......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, pain,
Form: Sonnet



The Demonic Prince
...The Demonic Prince Demons The legion of demons They dwell In the cold place of hell Tempt thee The depth of hell's empty They're here For it's time to spread fear Black crows Come out of ......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, death, horror,
Form: Couplet
Dancing Words
...As to poems with cadent feet, in tapping to an old-style pace, the pulsing verses gladly meet, and forward line by line advance, with elegance and charming grace, through steps of iamb......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, analogy, poetry,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Stressed Out
...A trochee, Dum-da, is used by a poet tho' very few know it; a tro-chee is self-referential. An iamb, da-Dum, to confuse or amuse or generally abus......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, confusion,
Form: Didactic
Epigrams Vi
...Epigrams VI These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina by Michael R. Burch When you’ve given so much that I......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, animal, death, dream, kiss,
Form: Epigram
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse I
...Light verse and nonsense verse Mini-Ode to Stamina by Michael R. Burch When you’ve given so much that I can’t bear your touch, then from a safe distance let me admire your persistence. ......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, animal, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Am That Iamb
...In the Beginning was the Word Just a sound really A somber echo into the abyss that kickstarted the whole universe (was the noise beautiful? was it ugly? who's to say for sure... ......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, angst, bereavement, christian, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Poetics and All That
...Here this? rise(iamb,anapest) meters TWO TWO meters fall(trochee,dactyl) in my poem they do sit each the others opposite; a foot is two syllables long, lines of them......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
Doggerel I
...Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse A$$tronomical by Michael R. Burch Einstein, the frizzy-haired, proved E equals MC squared. Thus, all mass decreases as activity ceases? Not my mass, my a$$ dec......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Choice Metered Verse
...rise(iamb,anapest) meters TWO TWO meters fall(trochee,dactyl) in my poem they do sit each the others opposite; a foot is two syllables long, lines of them make up my so......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, poetry,
Form: Didactic
Poems About Poems I
...Poems about Poems (I) What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~underwater~~~ watching the shoreline blur sees through his breath’s weightless ......Read the rest...
Categories: iamb, creation, god, muse, poems,
Form: Rhyme

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