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comparative more iambic, superlative most iambic
(prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. quotations examples
[J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.
1908, Frank Gilbert Bruner, The Hearing of Primitive Peoples, page 17
plural iambics
(prosody) An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs. examples