I suppose it is because some poets chose to change things up a little. For Shakespeare, some think that he changed the way he wrote certain parts of his plays based on a character's motivations... for instance, if a character was rebellious, then the "formal" structure might be changed out a little. In general, the answer is poetic license. Poets change the way they do things in order to improve the poems... that is, unless it was a mistake. For some poets, it might be.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in total, and the majority of them follow iambic pentameter. However, there are instances where he deviates from it to emphasize certain words or ideas. These variations are used for dramatic effect and do not occur frequently in his sonnets.
Iambic pentameter is the system of using alternating stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Think of this song as a poem:
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go
That verse starts with stressed syllable and alternates every other syllable until the end which gives it a sing-song effect. See the link below.
All of Shakespeare's sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, but sometimes he changes the rhythm slightly in a line. For example, "Let me not to the marriage of two minds", the first line of the famous Sonnet 116, has ten syllables all right, but if you try to say it all iambic it sounds peculiar, like "Let ME not TO the MARR-iage OF true MINDS." We want to say it "LET me NOT to the MARR-iage of TRUE MINDS." The line is irregular, as the iambic rhythm does not really fit the words. In some cases, like the first line of Sonnet 60, "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore", there are eleven syllables in the line, one too many, which we would have to correct by pronouncing "towards" as "t'wards". The same happens in line 10 of Sonnet 99 where "robbery" must be pronounced "robb'ry". In Sonnet 87, all fourteen lines have eleven syllables! But in this case the extra syllable is an unaccented syllable at the end of every line, forming what are called "feminine rhymes". This is considered an acceptable variation on iambic pentameter. In short, Shakespeare doesn't "neglect" iambic pentameter, but he does play with it and alter it on specific occasions when he feels it is needed.
Sonnets and iambic pentameter blank verse
Shakespeare wrote over 154 of these poems which are called sonnets.
Look at Shakespeare's sonnets, they're usually written in Iambic form.
For instance, he wrote around 40 plays. He wrote sonnets in iambic pentameter.
William Shakespeare is best known for his sonnets. Shakespeare published a total of 154 sonnets. Sonnets contain fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme.
All of Shakespeare's sonnets, including Sonnet 18, are written in iambic pentameter.
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.
Yes, Sonnet 73 is written in iambic pentameter. It consists of 14 lines, with each line containing 10 syllables following the pattern of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (iambic) and five metrical feet in total (pentameter).
Shakespeare is famous for writing many sonnets along with his plays. He wrote these sonnets in iambic pentameter which is a line that features an unstressed syllable filled by a stress syllable. Each line has 10 syllables or five sets.
The gas meter. No, actually, his verse writing is mostly in iambic pentameter.
Yes, all sonnets are.
He generally wrote sonnets (14 line poems with a pair of couplets at the end) written in Iambic Pentameter. Iambic Pentameter is a 5 beat measure following the pattern of a, B, a, B, a, B, a, B.