had a pulse

Because a few iambs continued to beat inside the poem the poet was able to bring it back to life.

silence of the iambs

After the mid-Twentieth Century free-verse slaughter, it was the silence of the iambs.

house slippers

The lines padded along in soft iambs as though written in house slippers.

iambs on the march

The jackbooted iambs are marching again in their ranks of five.