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Iambus

noun
(pl. L. iambi, E. iambuses)
1.
A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.  Synonym: iamb.





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"Iambus" Quotes from Famous Books



... judicious, but when he ventures on particulars, one cannot always agree with him. He seems to understand that our prosody is accentual merely, and yet, when he comes to what he calls variations, he talks of the "substitution of the Trochee, the Pyrrhic, or the Spondee, for the regular Iambus, or of the Anapaest, the Dactyl, the Tribrach, etc., for the same." This is always misleading. The shift of the accent in what Mr. Masson calls "dissyllabic variations" is common to all pentameter verse, and, in the other case, most of the words cited as trisyllables either ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell
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Words linked to "Iambus" :   foot, metrical foot, metrical unit


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