As has already been said, the iambus is the common foot of English verse. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
His imagination is too bold to be confined by the petty limits of trochee or iambus. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
The following are instances of an iambus in an anapestic verse. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
Wot, no distinction between meiosis and litotes, or iambus and spondee?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3] Reference
Item Ovid. in Ibin: — In te mihi liber iambus Tincta L5'cambeo sanguine tela dabit. From Wordnik.com. [Iambographorum principis reliquiae, quas accuratius collegit, adnotationibus virorum doctorum suisque animadversionibus illustravit et praemissa de vita et scriptis poetae commentatione nunc seorsum edidit Ignatius Liebel] Reference
It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot -- Around. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
The second stanza of Jonson's song furnishes an example of the substitution of a trochee for an iambus. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
The elegy and iambus contain the germ of the lyric style, though they do not themselves come under that head. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
And yet the first makes a iambus, and the second a trocheusech sillable retayning still his former quantities. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
It has also been proposed to make the third foot a spondee or an iambus, and the remaining feet anapaests, thus. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
The first is a good spondeus, the second a good iambus, and if the same wordes be broken thus it is not so pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
Wyatt in altering the accent of syllables, and coolly making the final iambus of a line out of such a word as "answer.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Metrical foot comprising an iambus followed by a trochee. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Or perhaps a 'paeon primus' -- u u u; a dactyl, by virtue of comic rapidity, being only equal to an iambus when distinctly pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
Syllaba longa brevifubjedVa, vocatw iambus. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Horace] Reference
27. iambus. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Come, iambus, to my aid. From Wordnik.com. [Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series] Reference
Anapest, defined, 273; interchangeable with iambus, 278. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
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