iamb

/ahy-am, ahy-amb/US // ˈaɪ æm, ˈaɪ æmb //UK // (ˈaɪæm, ˈaɪæmb) //

Iamb

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Prosody.
- : a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.

as iniambic pentameter

Synonyms

The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle.
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.
Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous.
Some, however, refer it to the supposed lop-sidedness or inequality of badgers' feet, answering to the ⏑— of the iamb.
They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.