iambus

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

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

There can be no very general agreement among readers as to the degree of accent necessary to change a pair of syllables from an "iambus" to a "pyrrhic" or a "spondee."

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

Since both the iambus and the anapest are accented on the last syllable, they may be interchanged.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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

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