iamb

     

An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot use 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 i-amb). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where it refers to a foot comprising an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-bove).

Trivia about iamb

  • This word for an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one actually has the reverse pattern
  • Greek gives us this word for a poetic foot of 2 syllables, an unstressed followed by a stressed
  • Poetic foot(4)
  • (Kelly reads another clue with the monitor.) In poetry, it's a foot or metrical unit consisting of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable

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