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Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
Iambic pentameter (/aɪˌæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtər/ eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term
Iambic_pentameter
Poetic metre of five feet
Pentameter (Ancient Greek: πεντάμετρος, 'measuring five (feet)') is a term describing the meter of a poem. A poem is said to be written in a particular
Pentameter
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
The dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It features
Dactylic_pentameter
Rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter
narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend
Heroic_couplet
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter, although seven or more feet in a line is uncommon. Pentameter is the most common
Metrical_foot
2017 translation by Emily Wilson
traditional dactylic hexameter by employing the traditional English iambic pentameter. Her translation uses simple syntax in modern English. Critical reception
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
The_Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translation)
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
with stressed syllables coming at regular intervals (e.g. in iambic pentameters, usually every even-numbered syllable). Many Romance languages use a
Metre_(poetry)
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
enjoyed much popularity in English, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, English poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter. There
Hexameter
Circa 1614 English translation
hexameter of the original Homeric Greek to rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter, establishing a new standard for translations of Greek and Latin hexameter
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
Odyssey_(George_Chapman_translation)
Line consisting of four iambic feet
anonymous authorship from the Jewish liturgy.) Syllable weight Iambic pentameter Andrews, Ethan Allen (1878). Grammar of the Latin Language. Houghton,
Iambic_tetrameter
British classicist, translator and author (born 1971)
what she calls the 'nimble gallop' of his verse. She writes in iambic pentameter, impressively limiting herself to the same number of lines as Homer's
Emily_Wilson_(classicist)
Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion: – uu
Elegiac_couplet
Pub theatre in Hampstead, London, England
The Pentameters Theatre was founded in 1968 and is still run by artistic director Leonie Scott-Matthews, a well known Hampstead resident. Until 2025 it
Pentameters_Theatre
1834 poem by Leigh Hunt
While the poem is metrically flexible, it essentially displays an iambic pentameter style. The poem draws from Arabian lore, where in the Islamic month of
Abou_Ben_Adhem_(poem)
Metrical foot
tree with two branches W and S where W = weak and S = strong. Iambic pentameter is one of the most commonly used measures in English and German poetry;
Iamb_(poetry)
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
languages, and in Latin for satire. It is also combined with a dactylic pentameter to make elegiac couplets, used in Greek for elegies and epigrams, and
Dactylic_hexameter
1720s translation by Alexander Pope
Homeric Greek text into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter. Pope was influenced by the Homeric Greek Odyssey, earlier translations
Odyssey (Alexander Pope translation)
Odyssey_(Alexander_Pope_translation)
1818 sonnet by Percy Shelley
Country England Language Modern English Form Sonnet Meter Loose iambic pentameter Rhyme scheme ABABACDCEDEFEF Publisher The Examiner Full text Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, with its stanzas of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine, exemplifies what came to be its chief
Alexandrine
Metrical foot
are sometimes used as substitutions in iambic verse. In strict iambic pentameter, anapaests are rare, but they are found with some frequency in freer versions
Anapaest
Theme of several works of poetry
story by Edna Clyne-Rekhy. The other is a six-stanza poem of rhyming pentameter couplets, created by a couple to help ease the pain of friends who lost
Rainbow_Bridge_(pets)
Replacing long syllables with two shorts in poetry
for them the sea-routes turned out easy. Resolution in the iambic pentameter is rare, but it does sometimes occur. When resolution occurs in a weak
Resolution_(metre)
Line of verse with just one metrical foot or dipody
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl
Monometer
Epic poem attributed to Homer
woman in 2015. Emily Wilson's 2023 translation uses unrhymed iambic pentameters. There are more than 2000 manuscripts of Homer. Some notable manuscripts
Iliad
Poetic form
which he set in hendecasyllabic lines. In English, poets often use iambic pentameter. Terza rima is a challenging form for a poet, and it did not become common
Terza_rima
Poem by William Shakespeare
written in the typical Shakespearean sonnet form, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter ending in a rhymed couplet. Sonnet 29 follows the same basic structure
Sonnet_29
Form of literature
Meter is the definitive pattern established for a verse (such as iambic pentameter), while rhythm is the actual sound that results from a line of poetry
Poetry
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
by a dactylic pentameter. The sense of the hexameter frequently runs into the pentameter, an effect known as enjambement, but a pentameter comparatively
Latin_prosody
Poetry written in regular metre but without rhyme
poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form
Blank_verse
1941 poem by John Magee Jr.
ago) (1941-08) Language English Subject Aviation Form Sonnet Meter Iambic pentameter Media type Handwritten Lines 14 Full text High Flight at Wikisource
High_Flight
Metre used in Hebrew biblical poetry
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl
Qinah_(metre)
Verse form created by Edmund Spenser
(1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme
Spenserian_stanza
Type of poetic meter based on stress
third, it eventually developed in France into the early form of iambic pentameter. One of the first scholars to make the distinction between rhythmic and
Latin_rhythmic_hexameter
Metrical foot
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl
Trochee
Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kingdom Language English Form Fragment Meter Iambic tetrameter, iambic pentameter Rhyme scheme abbaacc in some parts, couplets in others Publisher John
Kubla_Khan
2022 studio album by Weezer
synthesizer on "I Want a Dog" Efe Cakar – additional guitar on "Iambic Pentameter" Suzy Shinn – additional vocals on "Basketball" Technical Suzy Shinn –
SZNZ:_Winter
Poem by William Butler Yeats
in four stanzas of ottava rima, each composed of eight lines of iambic pentameter to narrate a journey to the city of Byzantium (Constantinople). In the
Sailing_to_Byzantium
Poetic line of four trochaic feet
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl
Trochaic_tetrameter
Quote from Hamlet
misquoted as "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." The line is in iambic pentameter. It is found in Act III, Scene II of Hamlet, where it is spoken by Hamlet's
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,_methinks
Form of literary device
beauty. Also known as “un-rhymed iambic pentameter", blank verse is an unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry, it has a consistent meter
Poetic_device
Sociolinguistic alternative to "creole" or "pidgin" labels
prominence of pentameter in English poetic tradition, claiming that since the time of Chaucer, and with a few notable exceptions, pentameter has been the
Nation_language
English dialect
'thee' and 'thou' and a lyrical manner of speech, reminiscent of iambic pentameter. The dialect is in danger of assimilation into West Country English, or
Forest_of_Dean_English
1842 poem by Robert Browning
Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet). In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem was
My_Last_Duchess
Literary form
often, although not always, possess some form of meter (e.g., iambic pentameter, dactylic hexameter, etc.). The tradition of dramatic verse in the West
Verse drama and dramatic verse
Verse_drama_and_dramatic_verse
Type of meter (poetry)
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl
Trimeter
Poetic meter of four metrical feet
Palooski, / Whose headski is redski and belly is blueski. (Dr. Seuss) Iambic pentameter Anapestic tetrameter Birch, Dinah (September 24, 2009). The Oxford Companion
Tetrameter
1667 epic poem by John Milton
written in blank verse, meaning the lines are metrically regular iambic pentameter but they do not rhyme. Milton used the flexibility of blank verse to support
Paradise_Lost
Representation of poetic meter
is not the same as marking meter. A perfectly regular line of iambic pentameter may have anywhere from 2 to 9 stresses, but it is still felt to exhibit
Scansion
1855 poem by Robert Browning
image of life. The poem is written in blank verse, non-rhyming iambic pentameter. A secondary theme of the dramatic monologue is the Church's influence
Fra_Lippo_Lippi_(poem)
1991 play by David Hirson
American playwright David Hirson. Written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, the Molière-inspired story, set in 17th-century France, pits dignified
La_Bête_(play)
Poem by William Wordsworth
he / Whom every Man in arms should wish to be". The poem is in iambic pentameter, and is composed mostly in rhyming couplets: thus is the poem written
Character of the Happy Warrior
Character_of_the_Happy_Warrior
Poem written by Richard Blanco
work: Loose, open lines of mostly conversational verse, a flexible iambic pentameter stanza form," by Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly. Richard Blanco was
One_Today
American musical artist
Academy of Theatre at The Globe. While in London he wrote a play in Iambic Pentameter called Cirque de Lumiere which he later produced back at home. He took
Josh_Ansley
Poetic form, traditionally fourteen specifically rhymed lines
verse form, using iambic pentameter with feminine rhymes, based both on the Italian endecasillabo and German iambic pentameter. The greatest Slovenian
Sonnet
British songwriter, producer and musician
"Flowers" Y "Goodbye" Y "I Want A Dog" 2022 Weezer SZNZ: Winter Y "Iambic Pentameter" Y "Basketball" Y "Sheraton Commander" Y "Dark Enough to See the Stars"
James_Flannigan_(songwriter)
Tragedy by William Shakespeare
is, however, written in blank verse, and much of it in strict iambic pentameter, with less rhythmic variation than in most of Shakespeare's later plays
Romeo_and_Juliet
Metrical foot
elegiac poetry, which followed a line of dactylic hexameter with dactylic pentameter. In the opening chapter of James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922), a character
Dactyl_(poetry)
Brief syllable(s) beginning a poem or pickup note(s) in music
English poetry, and in lines of iambic pentameter, the technique applies a variation on the typical pentameter line causing it to appear at first glance
Anacrusis
American actor and filmmaker (born 1956)
It was very beautiful, impressionistic, like an edgy, modern iambic pentameter. Mel has a really good grasp of language, he's fantastic with words."
Mel_Gibson
the dactyl as its primary rhythmic unit. Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Golden line Iambic meter: any meter based on the iamb
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
2004 British film
and Sheila Hancock. The film's dialogue is almost entirely in iambic pentameter and usually rhymes. This artistic choice polarised film critics. The film
Yes_(2004_film)
Gregorian processional for Palm Sunday
each couplet comprising the traditional dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter. This use of this classical meter was uncommon in Christian hymn writing
Gloria,_laus_et_honor
Poetic stanza, rhyming ABABBCC
centuries. The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is A B A B B C C {\displaystyle \mathrm {ABABBCC} }
Rhyme_royal
Poem by W. B. Yeats
the second, fourth, and sixth lines in trimeter, and the fifth line in pentameter, so that the pattern of stressed syllables in each stanza is 434353. The
The Wild Swans at Coole (poem)
The_Wild_Swans_at_Coole_(poem)
Pause or break in poetry or music
contained a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of pentameter. The pentameter often displayed a clearer caesura, as in this example from Propertius:
Caesura
Poem by William Shakespeare
is written in Shakespearean form, comprising fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, divided into three quatrains and a couplet. Within the sonnet, the narrator
Sonnet_30
been written in iambic pentameter acatalectic would be factually accurate, but redundant and never said, because iambic pentameter is presumed to be acatalectic
Acatalexis
Aria from W. A. Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
iambic pentameter (unusual for this opera which is mostly in iambic tetrameter), followed by a quatrain in iambic trimeter, then a final pentameter couplet
Queen_of_the_Night_aria
Plays of the English playwright
in iambic pentameter. In some of his early works (like Romeo and Juliet), he even added punctuation at the end of these iambic pentameter lines to make
Shakespeare's_plays
Poem by John Keats
is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth
Endymion_(poem)
& Mike Schiff October 28, 1998 (1998-10-28) 405 9.26 79 6 "I Am Dick Pentameter!" Terry Hughes Dave Goetsch & Jason Venokur November 4, 1998 (1998-11-04)
List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes
List_of_3rd_Rock_from_the_Sun_episodes
Poetic concept
one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter. Because dactylic hexameter is used throughout epic poetry, and because
Elegiac
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted
William_Shakespeare
flights of stairs and finally stops behind the door" (p. 35). The iambic pentameter (and iambic dimeter) rhythm of this poem can be considered an illustration
Ho,_mia_kor'
English theatre director and writer (1950–2018)
jukebox musical adaptation of Macbeth with dialogue written in iambic pentameter. Carlton wrote several other plays and directed episodes of the television
Bob_Carlton
Sonnet written by Horace Smith
"Ozymandias – Smith". PotW.org. Retrieved 23 September 2006. The iambic pentameter contains five 'feet' in a line. This gives the poem rhythm and pulse,
Ozymandias_(Smith)
Poem by William Shakespeare
rhyme scheme of the form ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong
Sonnet_123
One of Aesop's fables
he's no taste for grapes. By comparison, the Phaedrus version has six pentameter lines, of which two draw the moral, and Gabriele Faerno's Latin reworking
The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
Poem by William Shakespeare
a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic
Sonnet_18
Building in Walthamstow, Walthamstow
Millfield New Diorama New Wimbledon Old Red Lion Orange Tree OSO Park Pentameters The Place Pleasance Islington Polka Queen's, Hornchurch The Questors
Soho_Theatre_Walthamstow
Imagist poem in English by Ezra Pound published in 1913
is an early work of Modernist poetry as it attempts to "break from the pentameter", incorporates the use of visual spacing as a poetic device, and does
In_a_Station_of_the_Metro
Middle English poem by Chaucer
and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury
The_Legend_of_Good_Women
Poem by Wilfred Owen published 1920
"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is written loosely in iambic pentameter. It does not use traditional rhyme; instead, the lines are bound together
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
The_Parable_of_the_Old_Man_and_the_Young
English, the choriamb is often found in the first four syllables of iambic pentameter verses, as here in Keats' To Autumn: Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy
Choriamb
1969 book by Edward Gorey
14 illustrated panels with accompanying rhyming text written in iambic pentameter. The narrative depicts a remote manor house inhabited by elderly and infirm
The_Iron_Tonic
Narrative poem by Elizabeth Barrett (1820)
generations earlier. The poem is written in heroic couplets; that is, in iambic pentameter rhymed AABBCCDD... Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poetical Works of
The_Battle_of_Marathon_(poem)
Poem by John Keats
English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats wrote the poem between
When_I_Have_Fears
Urdu cinquain or quintain/pentastich with Sufi connections based on a pentameter. It has five lines in each paragraph. It is one of the more popular verse
Mukhammas
Patterns of syllabic stress
lines from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in iambic pentameter: HELENA: And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel;
Masculine and feminine endings
Masculine_and_feminine_endings
1914 poem by Robert Frost
to iambic pentameter. The majority of the lines continue in iambic pentameter. In lines 13-17, the meter alternates between iambic pentameter and dimeter
After_Apple-Picking
Fixed verse form of poetry
Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, published in 1579. It is in unrhymed iambic pentameter, but the order of end-words in each stanza is non-standard – ending 123456
Sestina
Thirteen-syllable verse
float by I do not know. — Edna Worthley Underwood (translated into iambic pentameter) The Polish alexandrine was used by many translators (among others, Franciszek
Polish_alexandrine
Poem by William Shakespeare
observations of nature. It is written in stanzas of six lines of iambic pentameter rhyming ABABCC; although this verse form was known before Shakespeare's
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)
Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)
Form of poetry
poets) Saturnian. Poetic dramatic dialogue, whether in English iambic pentameter or Greek iambic trimeter, also tends to be stichic in nature. Look up
Stichic
Poem by William Shakespeare
into 265 stanzas of seven lines each. The meter of each line is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABBCC, a format known as "rhyme
The_Rape_of_Lucrece
Poetic meter with eight trochaic metrical feet per line
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl
Trochaic_octameter
British comedian and actor
launch the Circle and Star Theatre in the space previously occupied by Pentameters Theatre at The Horseshoe pub in Hampstead. Also in 2025, Furst appeared
Steve_Furst
English actress (born 1954)
Macbeth (1978) – National Theatre, Olivier Theatre Hedda Gabler (1998) – Pentameters, Inner London Hay Fever (2016) – Logos Theater Copperfield (2021) – Lauderdale
Judi_Bowker
Poem by William Shakespeare
rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong
Sonnet_116
English dramatist, poet, and translator (c.1559–1634)
ineffective. Chapman's translation of the Odyssey is written in iambic pentameter, whereas his Iliad is written in iambic heptameter. (The Greek original
George_Chapman
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a.
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
n.
A verse of five feet.
a.
Having five metrical feet.