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What is an iamb?

What is an iamb? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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The IAMB was supposed to supervise the CPA's control and expenditure of Iraq's oil wealth, but for months the US resisted making any concessions to the body.
They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.
A renowned Shakespearean actor, he hits every iamb, every crisp consonant, like a hurdler running to glory.
The iamb in this line of blank verse is reversed, in imitation of Cordelia's unsprung life, into a trochee with shortened unstressed syllables.
Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous.

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