iambic pentameter. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Some minor edits and it could be read in iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [Transmitting History] Reference
Because who doesn't want to see Isaac speaking in iambic pentameter?. From Wordnik.com. [April 16th, 2007] Reference
A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
In your graduate studies, did you find out why most of her poetry was written in iambic tetrameter?. From Wordnik.com. [vivace - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I also left wanting to speak extemporaneously in iambic pentameter, but that is Shagspeare's fault. From Wordnik.com. [Macbeth] Reference
They 're as likely as not to ask you to write a heroic poem in iambic pentameters, if you know what they are. From Wordnik.com. [When Patty Went to College] Reference
Written in iambic tetrameter, it is better known today by the title “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”. From Wordnik.com. [2008 December 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
You don't get to choose your influences, or everybody would be writing in iambic pentameter, and wearing accordion collars. From Wordnik.com. [July 2006] Reference
And Peter Norman gives you The Great Gatsby in iambic tetrameter. From Wordnik.com. [‘GIRL WITH EVERYTHING ASKS FOR MOOR’ — Witty Summaries of ‘Othello’ and Other Classics, Edited by E. O. Parrott « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
It does some to be in iambic pentameter after all;). From Wordnik.com. [Bush to Deliver Farewell Address on Thursday - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
No meter, of course, because my dark genius couldn’t possibly be constrained in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Do What Works] Reference
This doesn’t happen in iambic verse — you can’t have a two syllable word with no stress at all. From Wordnik.com. [Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
7 Comments, Comment or Ping ami | 40daystochange and people wonder how Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [How to Kick-Start Creativity and Get Out of a Writing Rut | Write to Done] Reference
Besides, she told us, when she tried to write modern fiction she ended up writing in iambic pentameter and couldn’t stop. From Wordnik.com. [On the Lecture « So Many Books] Reference
The metre of the poem proper is iambic, that is, with the accent on the even syllables, and octosyllabic, or eight syllables to the line. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
'iambic' or lampooning form, generalised his themes and plots. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
Most are iambic senarii, some trochaic septenarii. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
And just as some verses combine iambic and anapestic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Is Shelley's To Night prevailingly iambic or trochaic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Can his iambic pentameter compete with her dactylic hexameter?. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
TENNYSON, The Brook. are unmistakably iambic, and Wordsworth's. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
It must consist of exactly fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso contain lines that are purely iambic, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
In iambic poetry each foot contains two syllables, the second of which is accented. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
FEMININE ENDING, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, 71. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The contrast is sharpest in the anapestic and dactylic, less sharp in the trochaic and iambic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Its iambic rhythm moves the reader easily from one subject to another, keeping the flow in tact. From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
More than half of the verses are iambic senarii, the next commonest being troch.septen. and iamb. octon. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
It is iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, according as the metrical pattern is made up of iambs, trochees, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The general rhythm of the whole sonnet of which these two lines are the beginning is plainly duple rising, or iambic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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