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Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:15 am
RoxanneR says...



My English teacher has asked us to writer a poem in Iambic Pentameter. Does anyone have any idea what IAMBIC PENTAMETER is?

Please help, this is due in next week.

I am doomed! :shock:

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Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:41 pm
Cassandra says...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter

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Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:34 pm
Via says...



the iambic part of this refers to an "unstressed, stressed" read in a poem.

For example, from a poem by Emily Dickinson, read this aloud:

Because I could not stop for death
he kindly stopped for me.


You will notice when you read that there are certain parts of each word or line that you put stress on [you may raise your tone of voice slightly while reading it]. Below, the emphasized portions are bolded:

Because I could not stop for death
he kindly stopped for me.


This style, the 'unstressed, stressed' style, is called Iambic.

The pentameter means that there are four 'feet' of this form per line...aka, how many times the 'unstressed, stressed' pattern is repeated in one single line. So we seperate the lines like this [seperated by hyphens]:

Because -- I could -- not stop -- for death
he kind -- ly stopped -- for me.


The first line of this, my dear...is Iambic Pentameter. [This poem is technically known as "Iambic Pentameter with alternating Trimeter...but that's another story].

I hope this helped, let me know if you need anything else!!

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Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:57 pm
RoxanneR says...



Wow! Thanks so much for that, Meg. I got an A on my report thanks to you!

Thanks again!

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Areida says...



I had to do a poem last year in iambic pentameter. Mine was really bad, but I'm glad you got yours all figured out! I'm just not cut out to be a poet. XD
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Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:00 am
Mr. Everyone says...



congradulations =[) and thank you everyone because now i know what iambiac pentameter is now =[) =)happy reading(= to all
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