iambus

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Vengeance is the poet's trade, Come, iambus, to my aid 'Gainst the fools who scoff at me.

From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by Williams, James

"Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

Trimeter iambus, consisting of six feet, which are generally all iambuses.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

In a lonely hollow walk, overgrown with sting-nettles he scanned the deadly verses on his fingers, until the murderous iambus flowed evenly upon its four feet without a halting choliambus.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher