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: What is iambic pentameter? : A line of iambic pentameter is a line of poetry which follows this pattern of weak and strong stresses:- : : weak STRONG weak STRONG weak STRONG weak STRONG weak STRONG : : It breaks into five feet, like this:- : : weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG : What is an iamb? : An iamb is one of the "weak STRONG" units used to build a line of iambic pentameter. "Penta" means five (as in "the Pentagon," a building which happens to have five sides) and iambic pentameter is a line of verse which has 5 x iambs. : example of iamb: goodbye : -in the word good-bye the stress, or "strong" is on the second syllable and the "weak: is on the first syllable

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