Iamb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 34 anagrams from letters in iamb (abim).
First recorded in 1835-45; short for iambus
The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle.
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.
Some, however, refer it to the supposed lop-sidedness or inequality of badgers' feet, answering to the ⏑— of the iamb.
They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.
Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous.