The lengthened penult would be the head of the finaliamb.
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Indeed, in that study, there were no examples of lexical iambs or compounds.
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In fact, when trochaic words like tiger and iambs like giraffe are spoken in isolation, they correspond exactly to disyllabic and monosyllabic tones.
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The trochee does not have to follow aniambwith the result being a clash configuration.
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In verse prosody the strong element of a foot may precede the weak (as with trochees and dactyls) or follow it (as with iambs).
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It may be a spondee, aniamb, a trochee or a pyrrhic.
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For example, he makes a convincing case that scribal s and s may often have wrongly superseded original s and s and thus transformed authorial iambs into scribal anapaests.
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This means that every ranking that produces lengthening in trochees also produces lengthening in iambs, but some rankings that produce lengthening in iambs do not produce lengthening in trochees.
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In this case, eachiambis underscored with a flap step.
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Except for lines two and five (each aniamb) and lines eight and nine (each an amphibrach), no two lines have the same metrical form.
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A siir or cheer is a type of metrical foot that roughly corresponds to aniamb.
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Thus, iambic pentameter is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is theiamb.
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Here, "iamb" refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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There are five stressed syllables per line, with varying feet and occasional lines ofiamb.
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The poem contains only a single instance of medial inversion (the reversal of aniambin the middle of a line), which was common in his earlier works.
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