iamb

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Clearly _and spend_ - is an iamb, but _Getting_ is not.

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  1. noun A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in delay.

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  • Clearly and spend_- is an iamb, but Getting is not. —  The Principles of English Versification
  • See below, page 63 The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. —  The Principles of English Versification
  • Since Greek and Latin prosody was primarily quantitative, that is, based upon syllabic length, and every long syllable was theoretically equal to two short syllables, an iamb or ◡-had the musical value of ♪♩, a trochee of ♩♪, a dactyl of etc. And since no such definite musical valuation can be given to English feet, a Greek iamb and an English iamb are obviously different. —  The Principles of English Versification
  • All of the twenty-five long lines end with an iamb, but only eleven begin with rising rhythm (thirteen begin with falling or trochaic rhythm, and one is ambiguous). —  The Principles of English Versification
  • Is the imperial iamb laid to rest, —  The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
 

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  1. French iambe, from Latin iambus, from Greek iambos.

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  1. = French iambe = Spanish yambo = Portuguese Italian jambo, from Latin iambus: see iambus.
 

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