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Answer for the clue "Iamb's counterpart ", 7 letters:
trochee

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Word definitions for trochee in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In poetic meter , a trochee , choree , or choreus , is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in English, or a heavy syllable followed by a light one in Latin or Greek. In this respect, a trochee is the reverse ...

Usage examples of trochee.

It made no use of the traditional stress-patterned metrics he knew so well, the iambs and trochees and dactyls, the spondees and anapests, out of which Furvain had always built his poems with such swiftness and ease.

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.