• Iambic pentameter (/aɪˌæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtər/ eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term...
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  • Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm, iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each metron being...
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  • be found in Shakespeare's Sonnets. A line of iambic pentameter comprises five consecutive iambs. Iambic trimeter is the metre of the spoken verses in...
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  • stressed (or strong) syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be iambic (one of three two-syllable meters alongside trochaic and spondaic)...
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  • trimeter Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter, or the alexandrine Iambic heptameter, or the fourteener Iamb (band) Iambic key/keyer Iambic Productions...
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  • centuries. The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCC. In practice, the stanza can be constructed...
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  • Latin and Greek poetry). Iambic pentameter, a common metre in English poetry, is based on a sequence of five iambic feet or iambs, each consisting of a relatively...
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  • contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines...
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  • and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the...
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  • substitutions in iambic verse. In strict iambic pentameter, anapaests are rare, but they are found with some frequency in freer versions of the iambic line, such...
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    is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic...
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    for example. Thus, "iambic pentameter" is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is the "iamb". This metric system...
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    1819 edition Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a sonnet, written in loose iambic pentameter, but with an atypical rhyme scheme, which violates the Italian sonnet...
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    The most common accentual-syllabic lines are five-foot iambic lines (iambic pentameter) "STAVE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary...
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    the iambic pentameter—rimed for narrative and lyric and largely unrimed for drama—as the English heroic line. The heroic couplet is a pair of iambic pentameter...
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  • three distinct theories of verse structure (focusing on the English iambic pentameter) advanced between 1966 and 1977. Inspired largely by the example of...
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    Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet). In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem...
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  • and third, it eventually developed in France into the early form of iambic pentameter. One of the first scholars to make the distinction between rhythmic...
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    national verse form, using iambic pentameter with feminine rhymes, based both on the Italian endecasillabo and German iambic pentameter. The greatest Slovenian...
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    poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential...
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    Alexandrine (redirect from Iambic hexameter)
    31-34) The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, with its stanzas of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine, exemplifies what came to be its...
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  • stress is not the same as marking meter. A perfectly regular line of iambic pentameter may have anywhere from 2 to 9 stresses, but it is still felt to exhibit...
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  • the lines are in iambic pentameter, they are referred to as heroic verse. However, Samuel Butler also used closed couplets in his iambic tetrameter Hudibrastic...
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  • speaking of birds, there's the Russian Palooski, / Whose headski is redski and belly is blueski. (Dr. Seuss) Iambic pentameter Anapestic tetrameter v t e...
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    typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong...
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  • For example, acatalectic iambic lines are unusual in Polish poetry because feminine ending is dominant. Thus, iambic pentameter in Polish is not 10-syllable...
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  • in English, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, English poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter. There are numerous examples...
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  • often found in iambic and trochaic meters, and also in anapestic, dochmiac and sometimes in cretic, bacchiac, and ionic meters. In iambic and trochaic meters...
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    written in blank verse, meaning the lines are metrically regular iambic pentameter but they do not rhyme. Milton used the flexibility of blank verse...
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    ChatGPT is prompted to create a poem in iambic pentameter for current U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Donald Trump. ChatGPT creates...
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