iambus

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"Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

It will, no doubt, be considered ridiculous by the Fannii and Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

“Thĕy woŭld hāzard”—furnishes an anapæst for an iambus.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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