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).
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot can vary, as follows: 1  Anapestic tetrameter:  2 And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea  (Lord Byron, .3  The Destruction of Sennacherib ).n poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot can vary, as follows: 1  Anapestic tetrameter:  2 And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea  (Lord Byron, .