From the depths of Macbeth’s torment to the loving declarations of Verona’s star-crossed lovers, the pulse of iambic pentameter sets the stage for William Shakespeare’s timeless explorations of the ...

Harold Mozley (Letters, 29 April) is wrong. “The mess we inherited from Labour” is an iambic tetrameter, not pentameter = three iambic beats, not five, on three second syllables. “Strong and stable ...

Iambic pentameter is briefly discussed and a definition is provided. How to use iambic pentameter is demonstrated to a group of students who then practise how to use it by reading out their birthdays.

It's poetry — rhyming couplets written in perfect iambic pentameter, those ten-syllable lines of alternating emphasis made famous by authors of sonnets and blank verse. But unlike your average metered ...

Sally Potter's new film Yes is unusual in that its dialogue is entirely in iambic pentameter. The film takes its title from the last word of James Joyce's novel Ulysses — and is Potter's response to ...