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- noun Plural form of
iambus .
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Examples
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Parisyllabic verse should regularly be composed of all iambuses; that is to say, all its even syllables should be accented.
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Thus we have learned to scan lines by iambuses, or rather by their accentual imitations, and a perfect line would consist of ten syllables, of which the alternate ones bore a rhythmical stress.
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These iambuses may, under certain restrictions, be changed for 'trochees,' and out of these two 'feet,' or their representatives, a metre, certainly very beautiful, has grown up gradually, which attained perhaps its greatest perfection in the verse of Pope.
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