“They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.”

“They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.”

“I hadn't futzed with an iamb in ages, and the words just dog-paddled around the page, senselessly.”

“It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters.”

“They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.”

“The foot consisting of an unaccented followed by an accented syllable is called an iambus.”