No, heartbreak is not an example of an iamb. An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, like in the word "believe." Heartbreak does not follow this pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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stressedAnother answer:An iamb is not a syllable. It is a metrical unit comprising two syllables. The first is short or unstressed, and the second is long or stressed. The word 'because' is an example of an iamb.
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The word joanne is an iamb.
An example of an iamb would be the word "again," where the stress is on the second syllable.
Yes, an iamb is technically the shorter of the two syllables making up a 'foot'. Iambic pentameter: 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day'. That is 5 feet written in iambic rhythm, the first line of Gray's Elegy.
Yes, destroy is an iamb, de = not stressed, stroy = stressed.
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An iamb is a word or line consisting of two syllables, one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. "Telephone" has three syllables, therefore is not an iamb.