Troops tend to be deployed in 'battalions' (commanded by a lieutenant colonel) as a more convenient size of military unit and, as such, colonels have tended to have a higher profile in specialist and command roles than as actual commanders of regiments.
An iamb /ËaÉªÃ¦m/ or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in delay).
Meter is defined as a system of stressed and unstressed syllables that create rhythm in metered verse. The traditional units of stressed and unstressed metered verse are called feet. There are usually the same number of feet in each line of metered verse, as well as the same type of foot pattern throughout the poem. Determining the metrical foot of a poem is termed scansion, and there are only six types of classical feet needed in order to determine the scansion of a line of English verse.