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I have no leisure - almost behind, for example, in verse
Answer for the clue "I have no leisure - almost behind, for example, in verse ", 6 letters:
iambus
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n. (context poetry English) an iamb
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iambus \I*am"bus\, n.; pl. L. Iambi , E. Iambuses . [L. iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A foot consisting of a short syllable ...
Usage examples of iambus.
It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot--Around : me gleamed : many a : bright se : pulchre.
Homage was paid to it in iambi and trochees, in trisyllabic feet, Buchnerian dactyls, and alexandrines, with metathesis, alliteration, internal rhymes, and nimble improvisations.