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
Choliamb, kō′li-amb, n. a variety of iambic trimeter, having a trochee for an iambus as the sixth foot.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
I`n e-x tre-ame de` sire And yet the first makes a iambus, and the second a trocheus ech sillable retayning still his former quantities.
From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George
There are four regular feet in English verse, the iambus, the anapest, the trochee, and the dactyl.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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