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Claim made by writer of verse with asymmetric feet (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

iambic

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'verse with asymmetric feet' is the definition.
'iambic' can be an answer for 'verse' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the 'with asymmetric feet' bit.

'claim made by writer' is the wordplay.
'claim' becomes 'iam' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'made by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (letters written or made by another set of letters).
'writer' becomes 'bic' (Bic is a manufacturer of pens).
'iam'+'bic'='IAMBIC'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for iambic that I've seen before include "regularly stressed" , "Kind of metric foot in poetry" , "Consisting of short-long metrical feet" , "Poetic metre with unstressed-stressed syllables" , "Kind of verse form with lines of five feet, each with two syllables" .)

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