IAMBUS
- an iamb (a type of metrical foot) [n IAMBI, IAMBUSES]
- foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love
- a type of metrical foot, also IAMB, IAMBIC [n IAMBUSES or IAMBI]