iambus

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Never take an iambus for a Christian name.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

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

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

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

The choriambus is a verse-foot consisting of a trochee united with and preceding an iambus, -∪∪-.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

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