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An iamb is a type of metrical foot in English poetry. Iambic pentameter is a meter used in English poetry, consisting of five iambs per line. Many poets use the pattern "ababbcbc". In this example, each foot contains two syllables: one long and one short. The rhyme scheme would be A-B-A-B-C-C. In other words, if you want to write a poem in iambic pentameter with the pattern "ababbcbc" there are 5 feet per line with 3 syllables per foot (long then short) or 4 feet with 2 syllables per foot (long then long). In the example, as noted above, the iambic pentameter would be A-B-A-B-C-C. In English accentual verse, iambic pentameter is found in combination with trochaic tetrameter or spondaic dimeter. An iamb is a particularly telling example of a phenomenon known as an "abkāz" in classical Arabic poetry. The foot is named for its similarity to the word "aḥbāz", meaning slanting or slanting backwards or backwards slanting, and also to the verb "akhbar", meaning to leap (i.e., high jump). In Classical Arabic poetry, iambic feet are found only in the meter known in English as "qasida". The name of this poem type in Arabic is "azaz". The word "qasida" comes from the past participle stem of the Semitic root q-s-d meaning simply to speak or express. Thus it is not surprising that the earliest verses used in MSS were composed by means of an act of speaking rather than by composing in strict formal verse. Qasidas are song-like pieces that seek to capture the flavour of speech itself. As such, they are written with a less restrictive metric scheme than normal verse. Their basic structure is a series of phrases in abba` form, often with an added caesura at least one syllable in length. The phrase or line may be arranged in any number of ways, with three being particularly common: nested within a longer phrase; especially when the abba is the same word twice, for example "I fell into a deep sleep—a snake—", or with a very loose caesura at the end. Within the framework of the abba` the poet is able to use any rhythms and to alter them in any way she might choose; indeed, there are no rhythmical restrictions that need be respected. As in Arabic, every metrical foot must contain a long (or stressed) syllable followed by a short (unstressed) syllable. An iamb is therefore an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, or vice versa; this pattern holds for each line of poetry. Iambic pentameter is therefore five iambs per line (or four iambs and one trochee). cfa1e77820
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