 Iamb       :
<meaning-changed>  Iamb       :
 Iamb Accent Vedic accent Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural speech, without a distinct meter. Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. Metre (or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their 'weight'. Metrical foot (aka poetic foot): the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry. Arsis and thesis Prosody: the principles of metrical structure in poetry. Syllable weight and stress: weight refers to the duration of a syllable, which can be defined by the length of a vowel; whereas stress refers to a syllable uttered in a higher pitch—or with greater emphasis—than others. Stressed or long syllable (Ancient Greek: longum; notation: URL a heavy syllable Unstressed or short syllable (Ancient Greek: brevis; notation: URL a light syllable Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. (cf. verse in music.) Verse: formally, a single metrical line. (Not to be confused with musical verse.) Gāthā Verse paragraph: a group of verse lines that make up a single rhetorical unit :