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	'''Iambic pentameter''' is a line of [[poetic meter]], made up of five iambic [[metric feet\|feet]]. In classical poetry an iambic foot is a short syllable follwed by a longer syllable, but in English poetry it is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word ''again''. An example of a line in iambic pentameter would therefore be "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", where the accent falls on the syllables ''I'', ''-pare'', ''to'', ''sum-'' and ''day''.		'''Iambic pentameter''' is a line of [[poetic meter]], made up of five iambic [[metric feet\|feet]]. In classical poetry an iambic foot is a short syllable follwed by a longer syllable, but in English poetry it is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word ''again''. An example of a line in iambic pentameter would therefore be "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", where the accent falls on the syllables ''I'', ''-pare'', ''to'', ''sum-'' and ''day''.

	The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse ~~plays~~]] of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].		The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse play]]s of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].

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	The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse plays]] of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].		The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse plays]] of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].

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	The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse plays]] of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].		The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse plays]] of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].

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	'''Iambic pentameter''' is a line of [[poetic meter]], made up of five iambic [[metric feet\|feet]]. In classical poetry an iambic foot is a short syllable follwed by a longer syllable, but in English poetry it is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word ''again''. An example of a line in iambic pentameter would therefore be "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", where the accent falls on the syllables ''I'', ''-pare'', ''to'', ''sum-'' and ''day''.		'''Iambic pentameter''' is a line of [[poetic meter]], made up of five iambic [[metric feet\|feet]]. In classical poetry an iambic foot is a short syllable follwed by a longer syllable, but in English poetry it is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word ''again''. An example of a line in iambic pentameter would therefore be "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", where the accent falls on the syllables ''I'', ''-pare'', ''to'', ''sum-'' and ''day''.

	The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]].		The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]] and in the [[Elizabethan]] [[verse plays]] of [[Marlowe]] and [[Shakespeare]].

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	The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]].		The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]].

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'''Iambic pentameter''' is a line of [[poetic meter]], made up of five iambic [[metric feet|feet]]. In classical poetry an iambic foot is a short syllable follwed by a longer syllable, but in English poetry it is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word ''again''. An example of a line in iambic pentameter would therefore be "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", where the accent falls on the syllables ''I'', ''-pare'', ''to'', ''sum-'' and ''day''.

The most famous usage of iambic pentameter is in the [[sonnet]].