(thing) by lumina Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:12:36

One of the several kinds of metrical feet in poetry, an iamb is a foot containing syllables in the pattern UNSTRESSED-STRESSED. English text in general is highly iambic.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:16:32

I"amb (?), n. [Cf. F. iambe. See Lambus.]

An iambus or iambic.

[R.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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