Iambus

In other words the two feet correspond to the schemes U_U-U_ and U-U-U -, where a Spondee can take the place of the Anapaest after or before the Iambus respectively.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

‘Iambus stood a little while astride with foot advanced, that so his strained limbs might get power and have a show of ready strength.’

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the last accented; as,

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

But perchance if ye would seeme yet more curious, in place of these four _Trocheus_ ye might induce other feete of three times, as to make the three sillables next following the _dactil_, the foote [_amphimacer_] the last word [_Sepulcher_] the foote [_amphibracus_] leauing the other midle word for a [_Iambus_] thus.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

In the Latin comic writers, Plautus and Terence, great freedom is permitted, and the various equivalents of the Iambus, viz. the Dactyl,

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

_ [_Restore_] is naturally a _Iambus_, & in this place could not possibly haue made a pleasant _dactil_.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_Dactill_ is most usuall and fit for our vulgar meeter, & most agreeable to the eare, specially if ye ouerlade not your verse with too many of them but here and there enterlace a _Iambus_ or some other foote of two times to giue him grauitie and stay, as in this _quadrein Trimeter_ or of three measures.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_Iambus_, the third all of _trissillables_, and all of the foote

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

In place of the Iambus, a Tribrach (v v v) may stand in any foot but the last.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

_An Iambus is a two-syllable foot accented on the last syllable.

English: Composition and Literature 1899