It's poetry — rhyming couplets written in perfect iambic pentameter, those ten-syllable lines of alternating emphasis made famous by authors of sonnets and blank verse. But unlike your average ...

sonnets are usually love poems written in iambic pentameter. But plenty of poets have deviated from those norms and broken the other structural rules laid out by Petrarch and Shakespeare.

Viewers may notice the actors in the drama speaking in an unusually mannered and emphasised way, and that’s because the script is written ... also known as unrhymed iambic pentameter, works ...

For more than 60 years, poet Robert Bly has written ... his Collected Poems. Like many mid-century American poets, Robert Bly started out writing rhymed verse in iambic pentameter — five ...

Then the children used Frost’s poem as a guideline to write their own poems in Iambic Pentameter. After each student completed their poem, an impromptu salon was held where they performed a ...

The meter, which is the most common in English poetry ... (We’d attempt to write a line in alexandrine too, but we still need to master iambic pentameter.) Feature image: Tom Scott v2.08 ...