iambus

That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable.

Miscellany 1784

As has already been said, the iambus is the common foot of English verse.

English: Composition and Literature 1899

Only we must be careful that by "iambus," in English poetry, we _meant_ an unstressed syllable, rather than a short syllable followed by a long one.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

/'And YET' /is a complete 'iambus'; but 'anyet' is, like 'spirit', a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the 'arsis' or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Or young Apollo's; and yet, after this, &c. '/They would HAzard/' [1] -- furnishes an anapæst for an 'iambus'.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee.

The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965

This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

And yet the first makes a _iambus_, and the second a _trocheus_ ech sillable retayning still his former quantities.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham