iambus

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By the elision of e in the, as is customary, the whole of the intended effect is lost; for th'unbend is nothing more than the usual iambus.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

For blank verse is but a restricted prose, because there is as often as not no natural pause at the end of the line, and because other feet may be substituted for the iambus.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

Antispast, an′ti-spast, n. in metre, a foot composed of an iambus and a trochee.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

By rapid utterance two syllables are often equal to one, and in this way an anapest is frequently used with the time value of an iambus.

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