iamb

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(thing) by lumina (?) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:12:36

One of the several kinds of metrical feet in poetry, an iamb is a foot containing syllables in the pattern UNSTRESSED-STRESSED. English text in general is highly iambic.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:16:32

I"amb (?), n. [Cf. F. iambe. See Lambus.]

An iambus or iambic.

[R.]

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metrical feet	trochee	I am no poet	Iambic
iambic pentameter	George Washington's 1791 State of the Union Address	Semiped	Diiamb
Robert Falcon Scott Revenged	Upon the breasts of a barmaid from Hayle	Speak of	juvenalia
On the Nature of Truth	The Center for Computational Electromagnetics	foot	B
radio communication	Jack Rabbit	John Adams's 1800 State of the Union Address	Prologue to Through the Looking Glass
Earl of Castlehaven	syncretic	anapest	spondee

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