{i} (Poetry) iambus, foot consisting of two syllables (the first syllable is long and the second short or the first syllable is stressed and the second unstressed)
A foot (pair of syllables) containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Iamb is the most commonly used meter in traditional accentual syllablic poetry in English The word "deceive" is an iamb
A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed) There are four iambs in the line Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love, from a poem by Christopher Marlowe (The stressed syllables are in bold ) The iamb is the reverse of the trochee