"Home," by Margaret Mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest.
But others say that Torrhebus first used that mode, as Dionysius the Iambus relates.'
The foot consisting of an unaccented followed by an accented syllable is called an iambus.
The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
The choriambus is a verse-foot consisting of a trochee united with and preceding an iambus, -∪∪-.
