Some metrical feet

• Doctor in Iowa, one for feet
• Poetic metrical units (Var.)
• Horace's Epodes
• Poetic feet
• Stressed feet, in poetry
• Confession of one fancying men and women in poetic pieces
• Metrical units with alternating long and short syllables
• Metrical patterns in book carried by one French friend

The Collaborative International Dictionary 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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: iambus ] [also: iambi (pl)]