Iambus

[I*am·bus]

A metrical unit with unstressed stressed syllables

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A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in &acr;m'bens, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

Noun
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables

n.
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

Iambus

I*am"bus , n.; pl. L. Iambi , E. Iambuses . [L. iambus, Gr. ; prob. akin to to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in &acr;m'bens, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in &acr;m'bens, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

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