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

The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

I`n e-x tre-ame de` sire And yet the first makes a iambus, and the second a trocheus ech sillable retayning still his former quantities.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

In Browning’s “Prospice,” the iambus predominates, and expresses heroic endurance and courage in meeting death; but the first foot—“Fear death”—is a spondee, and indicates the deliberative realization of the situation.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

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