1 It is written in basic pentameter with exactly ten stressed syllables in every single line.

2 It was written in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter.

3 How many of you know what iambic pentameter is?

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

5 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.

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

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

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

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

10 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.

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

12 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.

13 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.

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

15 And if you repeat them five times, you have pentameter.

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

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

18 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.

19 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.

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

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

22 As my thoughts on that subject began to be marshalled and spoken, I may have been formally influenced by Gray's pentameter quatrains.

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

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