iambic
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Other decisions are matters of policy: Should a translator preserve Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
The tone of “Memnon,” written in iambic hexameter, is direct, spare and cast in a tense of tragic inevitability.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024
"This is the biggest mountain because I was always worried about the iambic pentameter, about blank verse, and not being trained as an actor," he says.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2024
In 2010, Lee found herself on Broadway in a revival of “La Bête,” a comedy in iambic pentameter set in the 17th century and starring David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley.
From New York Times • May 31, 2023
Penelope was far too preoccupied with worry to notice how the five ga-dongs made a perfect line of iambic pentameter, which only goes to show how extremely worried she was.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing iambic
Poetry: Structure and Meter
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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Shakespeare
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