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DictionaryRoot: iambos
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iambos

iambic foot or verse

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A poetry card shows exactly "to DAY | a WAY" with unstressed lowercase then stressed uppercase rhythm repeated, clean scholarly illustration with quill.
adjective / noun

iambic

eye-AM-bik/aɪˈæmbɪk/

A poetic rhythm built from pairs of syllables, each unstressed then stressed.

Etymology
iambGreekiambic foot or verse
+icGreekconnected with or characteristic of

From iambos, the adjective describes verse employing iambs. Classical iambic rhythm depended on syllable length, whereas the selected English sense describes an unstressed-then-stressed pattern.

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