"The shortest form of the English Iambic," says Lindley Murray, "consists of an Iambus with an additional short syllable: as, Disdaining, Complaining, Consenting, Repenting.

For our Amphibrachic order will be made up of lines that are commonly scanned as anapesticssuch anapestics as are diversified by an iambus at the beginning, and sometimes also by a surplus short syllable at the end; as in the following verses, better divided as in the sixth example above: "Th~ere c=ame t~o | th~e b=each ~a | p~oor Ex~ile | ~of

The stated or uniform adoption of the iambus for a part of each line, and of the anapest for the residue of it, produces verse of the Composite Order.