Do you mean, what sort of handwriting would he use? The same handwriting he always used: secretary hand.
Or do you mean "When did Shakespeare use iambic pentameter?" The answer is in sonnets and in a lot of the dialogue in his plays, when it was supposed to be more powerful.
Iambic pentameter
An iambic pentameter checker is a tool used to analyze poetic meter in a line of verse. It typically identifies the presence of five iambs (a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) in a line of verse. To determine if a tool is an iambic pentameter checker, you would need to assess if it can accurately identify and count iambs in a given line of poetry.
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Iambic Pentamer . A literary form based on the number 5. (all"s well that ends well) is a stellar example. Ideally lines had five words. correction Iambic Pentameter-sounds like a camera, does it not? Stop messing with the answers, which one is right?
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No, although he often wrote in iambic pentameter. I'm not sure what "iconic pantomimer" is; I would have thought that it would be a description of Marcel Marceau, an iconic pantomimer if there ever was one.
A line of poetry that is considered iambic pentameter consists of five (penta) feet written in iambic meter (syllables follow a pattern of unstressed, stressed such as in the word intend: inTEND). A line of iambic pentameter would sound like: inTEND, inTEND, inTEND, inTEND, inTEND. An example would be: I live today for two, just me and you.
Well that poem would be in iambic pentameter.
There would be many candidates, from many different time periods. Shakespeare "bent" the meter quite a bit, understanding that the "sing-song" nature of pure iambic pentameter, in its purest form, becomes dull. Many others have stretched the meter quite a bit, including John Berryman, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Theodore Roethke. Technically, to be called a poem written in iambic pentameter, the lines or the cadence of the poem must be written in predominantly iambic pentameter. Given the number of poems that have come into print, it would be difficult to determine which poet "bends" the meter the most, while still categorizing the poems he or she has produced as iambic pentameter poems. In comparisons between a certain set of poets, you may have to decide this for yourself.
Writing a play in iambic pentameter can lend a rhythmic and lyrical quality to the dialogue, making it more engaging and creating a sense of flow. It also allows for a structured and disciplined approach to writing that can help with the overall coherence and unity of the play. Additionally, iambic pentameter has a long history of being used in classic plays, so it can give your work a timeless and classical feel.
In 1573, as part of his new religious reforms (because he had just become Pope in 1572) Pope Gregory XIII instituted the Catholic practice that all secular poetry was required to be written in iambic pentameter in order to encourage primarily religious work. By the time William Shakespeare was of age to begin seriously writing poetry, it had become common practice to use primarily iambic pentameter in any work worthy of reading. Because of this, he adopted the practice of writing in iambic pentameter. Interestingly, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in iambic pentameter mirrors the way most people naturally speak. This writing pattern, embraced by Shakespeare, makes the Old English verse sound more conversational, and more familiar to modern listeners.
There are 10 syllables in an iambic pentameter because iambic means the 1st syllable is not stressed but the 2nd one is stressed; kinda of like a heart beat (da-DUM da-DUM). pentameter comes from pentagon which is 5 so there would be 5 unstressed syllables and 5 stressed syllables (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM).