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).
The second word, heptameter tells you how many feet there are per line. A trochee is a two-syllable foot with the first syllable stressed and the second syllable unstressed -- DUM da -- as in the word spider or purple or beauty.. A line of trochaic heptameter consists of seven trochees in a row: DUM da / DUM da / DUM da / DUM da / DUM da / DUM da / DUM da. Oakwolf is mistaken to say that a metrical foot always has two syllables. The iamb (da DUM) and the trochee (DUM da) are two-syllable feet.