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