id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2451 Iamb (poetry) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1409 233 73 Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in "above"). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where it refers to a foot comprising an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-bove). In English accentual-syllabic verse, iambic trimeter is a line comprising three iambs. Iambic dimeter is a meter referring to a line consisting of two iambic feet. Iambic trimeter is a meter referring to a line consisting of three iambic feet. Iambic tetrameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of four iambic feet: Iambic Pentameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of five iambic feet: Iambic hexameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of six iambic feet. Iambic Heptameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of seven iambic feet: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2451.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2451.txt