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n. - A verse line consisting of a metrical foot of two syllables unstressed and stressed respectively adj. - Of or consisting of a metrical foot of two syllables unstressed and stressed respectively

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  • iambic pentameter
  • Some minor edits and it could be read in iambic tetrameter.
  • Because who doesn't want to see Isaac speaking in iambic pentameter?
  • A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
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