Iamb Explained

Iamb should not be confused with Lamb (disambiguation).

Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to:

Meter and poetry

Classical poetry and quantitative verse

• Iamb (poetry)
• Choliamb
• Iambus (genre)

Accentual-syllabic and syllabic verse

• Iambic trimeter
• Iambic tetrameter
• Iambic pentameter
• Iambic hexameter, or the alexandrine
• Iambic heptameter, or the fourteener

Other uses

• Iamb (band)
• Iambic key/keyer
• Iambic Productions
• , grammarian

See also

• Iambe