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1. It was written in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter.

2. How many of you know what iambic pentameter is?

3. Heroic couplet refers to two lines of iambic pentameter rhyming with each other.

4. Knowing what iambic pentameter is, is not a gift of birth, but rather something that comes through a little bit of practice, which means we have to work at it a little bit.

5. Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call, and what Milton would have called, blank verse.

6. Shakespeare's plays, all of them written largely in iambic pentameter verse, are marked by extraordinary poetry, vivid, subtle, and complex characterizations, and a highly inventive use of English.

7. He heard the rhythms of iambic pentameter and chanting, Hieros Gamos and sacred rites, resonating with the rumble of the jet.

8. An iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in'delay '.

9. A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.

10. It's rhymed iambic tetrameter, four beats per line, with some variations.

11. Each line falls naturally into iambic patterns, with unaccented syllable followed by accented syllable.

12. But iambic pentameter, even when translated into Chinese, could not lure Chiang into making reforms, much less into abdicating his seat of power.

13. Then he began a speech, and it could have been iambic pentameter.

13. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

14. But the true aboriginal stroke was Whitman's breaking loose from the iambic collar of traditional English poetry.

15. In technical terms, both added to the literary independence of the new nation by breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter and exhibiting a freedom in form unknown before.

16. In The Legend Of Good Women, he used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter which is to be called later the heroic couplet.

17. Some people have said there's a relationship between poetic meter and the fall of your foot – and possibly your heartbeat might be thought of as an iambic beat when it's amplified by walking.

18. They usually write poetry in heroic couplets , a polished iambic pentameter line.

19. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet.

20. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter.

21. The result was that the old poets became some of them writers of heroic and others of iambic verse.

22. Milton is alerting us to the significance of the word "first" in the very first line, in this wonderful act of violating the laws of iambic pentameter.

23. Up to this point in literary history, only verse written for the theater had been written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, in blank verse.

24. The language and meter used by Aeschylus in his plays was the forerunner of blank verse, or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

25. This fact about English has long been exploited by poets in creating the English language's most common verse form, iambic pentameter.

26. The primary metrical pattern in Frost is the primary metrical pattern in English poetry, which is to say blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

27. But by the time we finish the end of that line, we are really right in the middle of very regular iambic pentameter.

28. A boat, about, a dress, a coat: these are all simple iambic phrases that you hear in our language all the time.