Meaning & use
Iambi
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Metrical feet, each made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, used in poetry; the plural of iambus.
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The scholar scanned the sonnet, marking each line's five iambi.
Classical Greek satirical verse was often composed in iambi.
A note on using this word
The Latinate plural of "iambus"; in everyday usage, most writers simply say "iambs."
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iambsiambuses
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