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   Iambus
   I·am'bus noun ; plural Latin Iambi , English Iambuses . [ Latin iambus , Greek ...; probably akin to ... to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to Latin jacere to throw. Confer Jet
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   Iambus
   • (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.
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   Iambus
   In in prosody, an iambus is a foot of two syllables, a short and a long one or an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. The iambic metre is the fundamental rhythm of many English verses. The verse of five iambic feet is a favourite metre, being the heroic verse of English, German, and Ita...
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   Iambus
   [genre] Iambus (sometimes confusingly referred to as `iambic poetry`) was a genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars have traced to the cults of Demeter and Dionysus. The genre featured insulting and obscene lang...
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   iambus
   1) Foot 2) Foot in a line 3) Iamb 4) Metrical foot 5) Metrical unit 6) Two-syllable unit
   Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/iambus/1
   
   

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