Associations to the word «Iamb»

Wiktionary

IAMB, noun. A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Dictionary definition

IAMB, noun. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne