William Shakespeare famously wrote his plays and sonnets in iambic pentamer. John Milton used iambic pentamer in his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) and William Wordsworth also used the metric form in his autobiographical poem in blank verse The Prelude (1798). To write in iambic pentameter the prosody of each poetic line is: Pentameter is historically found in French and Italian classic poetry and was first found used in English poetry thanks to Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century. Pentameter originating from the French word pentametre became known since the sixteenth century to define “a verse line of five metrical feet.” Pentameter is one of the traditional types of meter used. Iamb meter was first used in the seventh century BC by Archilochus and is heavily prevalent in classical Greek, Latin, and English poetry from before the twentieth century. In prosody, the term iambic became known in the sixteenth century to define a poetic foot of two syllables wherein the first syllable is short, also known as unstressed and unaccented, and the second syllable is long, known as stressed and accented. Iambic pentameter is a rising meter form consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed or accented syllables as five iambic feet per line.
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