What is iambic pentameter lines?

Answer 1

First look to see if the predominant rhythm is iambic--do the words have a ti-DUM ti-DUM feel to them. If so, the rhythm is iambic. Then see if the phrases tend to have five strong beats. If so, it's pentameter.

Just looking through the favourite quotations from the movie "Twilight" on the IMdb, you can find: "Bella, guess who asked me to the prom?" If you added an unaccented syllable at the beginning, "Hey Bella! Guess who asked me to the prom?" it's iambic pentameter. Or "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb": although the last foot "with the lamb" is actually an anapest, this is basically a line of iambic pentameter.

Answer 2

Using the convention that - is an unstressed and / a stressed syllable:

an Iamb is notated: - /

and a line of Iambic Pentameter: - / - / - / - / - /

Answer 3

Iambic pentameter is a type of metrical line used in traditional English poetry, consisting of five pairs of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables, for a total of ten syllables per line. Shakespearean sonnets are often written in iambic pentameter.

Answer 4

five syllables with regilar beat and equal accents

or

five pairs of syllables with the accent on the second syllable in each pair.

Answer 5

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