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Iambic Pentameter describes the number and type of syllables in a line of poetry. It contains no lines, any more than a bone contains a skeleton.

What a line of iambic pentameter does contain is metric feet or units of rhythm. They are iambs and there are five of them. An iamb is a two syllable unit with the stress on the second syllable, like be-fore, cre-ate, de-nounce.

The curfew tolls the end of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea.

(From Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) This is two lines of iambic pentameter, containing 10 iambs altogether:

The cur-few tolls the end of par-ting day.

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