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We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it…or the animals. The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority… but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
—Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick
iamb
A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed). There are four iambs in the line "Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love," from a poem by Christopher Marlowe. (The stressed syllables are in bold.) The iamb is the reverse of the trochee.