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...

can be found Shakespeare's Sonnets. A line of iambic pentameter comprises five consecutive iambs. Iambic trimeter is the metre of the spoken verses in...

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...

tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter, or the alexandrine Iambic heptameter, or the fourteener Iamb (band) Iambic key/keyer Iambic Productions...

stressed (or strong) syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be iambic (one of three two-syllable meters alongside trochaic and spondaic)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic...

national verse form, using iambic pentameter with feminine rhymes, based both on the Italian endecasillabo and German iambic pentameter. The greatest Slovenian...

1819 edition Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a sonnet, written in loose iambic pentameter, but with an atypical rhyme scheme, which violates the Italian sonnet...

three distinct theories of verse structure (focusing on the English iambic pentameter) advanced between 1966 and 1977. Inspired largely by the example of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential...

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...

example in Polish poetry acatalectic iambic lines are unusual, because feminine ending is dominant. Thus iambic pentameter in Polish is not 10-syllable long...

written in the typical Shakespearean sonnet form, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter ending in a rhymed couplet. Sonnet 29 follows the same basic structure...

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...

in English, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, English poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter. There are numerous examples...

written in blank verse, meaning the lines are metrically regular iambic pentameter but they do not rhyme. Milton used the flexibility of blank verse...

marching or dancing. The Greeks recognised three basic types of feet, the iambic (where the ratio of arsis to thesis was 1:2), the dactylic (where it was...

poem written in a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. It typically adopts a xaxa, xbxb rhyme scheme...

Helen Monks and Jaygann Ayeh. The episode is written entirely in iambic pentameter. It received positive reviews from critics. Fred (Jaygann Ayeh), the...

by Mercutio published originally in prose and often adapted into iambic pentameter, in which she is a miniature creature who performs midnight pranks...