"Full fathom five thy father lies." This line from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" is written in iambic pentameter, which consists of five pairs of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables per line.
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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.
A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee is known as a Shakespearean sonnet.
YesSonnets are usually defined as poems written in iambic pentameter with 3 quatrains ("paragraphs" with 4 lines each) that follow an ABAB rhyme scheme. It ends with a rhyming couplet that is also iambic pentameter.A line written in Iambic pentameter has 10 syllables. The first is unstressed, the second is stressed, and they continue to alternate between stressed and unstressed until the end of the line.
A Shakespearean Sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg.
Yes, the famous line "To be or not to be, that is the question" from Shakespeare's Hamlet is written in iambic pentameter. It consists of ten syllables in five pairs, with the stress falling on every second syllable.
Yes, "This is my letter to the world" is written in iambic tetrameter. Each line contains four iambs, which are metrical feet consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
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.
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne is written in iambic tetrameter, with each line consisting of four metrical feet.