1) Anapest cousin 2) Anapest relative 3) Beat in poetry 4) Behold or arise in poetry 5) Bit of poetic rhythm 6) Blank-verse foot 7) da-DAH 8) Da-dum 9) Foot 10) Foot for Frost 11) Foot in a line 12) Foot in a line of poetry 13) Foot in a meter 14) Foot in a sonnet 15) Foot metric 16) Foot of a poet
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1) Foot 2) Iambus 3) Poeticfoot
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[poetry] An iamb m, or iambus, is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in `delay`). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where i...
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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. See Foot.
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a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. This is the rhythm of ordinary English speech. Examples of iambic words are 'divide' and 'deter.' Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'The Windhover' begins deceptively with a line that appears to have five iambic feet, 'I caught this morning morning's minion, king-', but that sca...
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• (n.) An iambus or iambic.
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metrical foot consisting of one short syllable (as in classical verse) or one unstressed syllable (as in English verse) followed by one long or ... [7 related articles]
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A unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed
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I'amb noun [ Confer French
iambe . See
Lambus .] An iambus or iambic. [ R.]
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In poetry: one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
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A foot consisting of two syllables where the first is short or unstressed and the second is long or stressed e.g. as in 'beSIDE'.
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short-long
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[
n] - a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
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a metrical unit that contains two syllables, an unstressed beat followed by a stressed beat (- ').
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iambus noun a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
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a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
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