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The Odyssey is an epic poem written by Homer in dactylic hexameter. Much Ado About Nothing is a dramatic comedy written mostly in prose and a little iambic pentameter by Shakespeare.
Much but not all, of Shakespeare's drama is written in blank verse, which consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter, five iambic feet.
A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter is a sonnet. Sonnets traditionally follow specific rhyme schemes, most commonly either the Petrarchan or Shakespearean form.
Much of Shakespeare is written in Blank Verse: five feet of iambic pentameter (da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum).
Robert Frost is known for using mainly iambic meter in his poetry. This meter consists of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables, creating a natural and conversational tone in his work. Frost's use of iambic meter helps to capture the rhythm of everyday speech while still conveying deep meanings and emotions.
Iambic pentameter is a common meter in English poetry, being very much in favour durign Shakespeare's day and being a meter which accomodates natural speech rhythms. I don't know how you could tell if it was the "most common" meter as there is no register of metric poetry from which we could draw statistical information.
The Odyssey was written in dactylic hexameter, which is a specific meter found in ancient Greek epic poetry. This meter consists of six feet per line, with each foot typically containing one long syllable followed by two short syllables.
Start with Act 1 Scene 2. Such lines as "Say to the king the knowledge of the broil", "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)" or "So well thy words become thee as thy wounds" are perfect iambic pentameter. Many lines are imperfect for some reason or other (too many or too few syllables, trochees changed for iambs, feminine endings etc.) but the rhythm as a whole is iambic. You can do the same with scene 3 or indeed scenes 4 to 7--they are full of iambic pentameter. Watch out for the witches, though, because they usually speak four feet to the line.
besides the fact that everyone used it so it was natural, the @p3x answer is, "He wanted it to have a more natural, lyrical flow that is pleasing to the ear."
The play, Romeo and Juliet is written in my language, English. It is, however, almost all written in verse, in iambic pentameter, occasionally with rhymes. Nobody really talks or ever talked like that but poetry is always much more powerful and moving language than plain prose. It may be unnatural, but it's way effective.
Blank verse is iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme. If commoners speak in blank verse (and they do), they necessarily speak in iambic pentameter. Occasionally they speak in rhyming iambic pentameter too. It is not the nature of the speaker, but the nature of what they are saying that determines what form the lines will take. Blank verse gives the impression of measured, well-thought-out speech. It conveys seriousness and wisdom (or the appearance of it). Prose is more appropriate for utterances which are funny, stupid or insane. When characters like King Lear and Othello go insane, they start talking in prose when they spoke in blank verse before. The characters who are written as funny or stupid in Shakespeare's plays are often workmen or servants, as a result of social snobbery. Middle-class people who show signs of nobility, like Romeo and Juliet, speak in iambic pentameter, heck, even in sonnets!
Yes, Shakespeare is known for his sonnets, which are a type of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a specific rhyme scheme. He also wrote various other forms of poetry such as blank verse and narrative poems.