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Iamb (Eye-am) Or Iambus, Iambic Defined

The most common metrical foot in English, German, and Russian verse, and many other languages as well; it consists of two syllables, a short or unaccented syllable followed by a long or accented syllable, as in a-VOID or the RUSH, or from the opening line of John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale":
a DROW | -sy NUMB | -ness PAINS
Sidelight: The name of the iambic foot derives from the Greek iambos, a genre of invective poetry (now termed lampoon) with which it was originally associated.
(See also Meter, Rhythm)

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