iambus

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In the fourth place, it may contain some other foot than the regular iambus.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

In my translation I have used the iambus as the basic metrical unit throughout the entire poem.

From Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse by Cropley, Arthur

There are four regular feet in English verse, the iambus, the anapest, the trochee, and the dactyl.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

It has also been proposed to make the third foot a spondee or an iambus, and the remaining feet anapaests, thus: 'Full-sailed | wide-winged | poised soft- | ly forev- | er asway.'

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

Archilochus made use of the iambus and the trochee, and organized them into the two forms of metre known as the iambic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various