iambus

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The foot consisting of an unaccented followed by an accented syllable is called an iambus.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

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

His imagination is too bold to be confined by the petty limits of trochee or iambus.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It is almost wholly destitute of quantity, and the intonation which supplies that want is of such a kind that hardly any foot but the iambus is possible in it.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

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