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).
made from is feet feet. What is being described by this two-word name is the pattern of syllables in the line of poetry. The first word tells us the type of foot, and the second word tells us the number of that kind of foot, or the meter.The scansion of a poem, its feet and meter, are what give the poem rhythm.ight feet is octameter Nine feet is nonameter Ten feet is decameter. If there is no clear repetition of a foot, the line is named for the number of syllables it contains; an eight syllable line is octosyllabic, a ten syllable line is decasyllabic, etc. meter (n): the number of feet in a line of poetry.