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  2. Iambic pentameter - Wikipedia

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    As the examples show, iambic pentameter need not consist entirely of iambs, nor need it have ten syllables. Most poets who have a great facility for iambic pentameter frequently vary the rhythm of their poetry as Donne and Shakespeare do in the examples, both to create a more interesting overall rhythm and to highlight important thematic elements.

  3. Sonnet 14 - Wikipedia

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    This sonnet suggests this pattern, but its rhetorical structure is more closely modeled upon the older Petrarchan sonnet which arranges the octave (the first eight lines) in contrast to the sestet (the final six lines). Line 3 exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:

  4. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    In Slovenia the sonnet became a national verse form, using iambic pentameter with feminine rhymes, based both on the Italian endecasillabo and German iambic pentameter. [159] The greatest Slovenian poet, France Prešeren , [ 160 ] wrote several sonnet sequences from 1831 onwards and is particularly known for his crown of sonnets , Sonetni venec ...

  5. Alexandrine - Wikipedia

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    The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, with its stanzas of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine, exemplifies what came to be its chief role: as a somewhat infrequent variant line in an otherwise iambic pentameter context.

  6. Sonnet 115 - Wikipedia

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    The 1st line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: × / × / × / × / × / Those lines that I before have writ do lie, (115.1) This sonnet contains examples of all three metrical variations typically found in literary iambic pentameter of the period. Lines 2 and 4 feature a final extrametrical syllable or feminine ending:

  7. Sonnet 119 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 119 is one of ... The 3rd line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: ... and 12) feature a final extrametrical syllable or feminine ending, as for example:

  8. Sonnet 142 - Wikipedia

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    While frequently the rhythm of iambic pentameter lines arises from the implicit emphasis of its words, this sonnet affords several examples of the implicit emphasis of words arising from the meter. For example, in line 9, Shakespeare diverts the ictus away from the two strong tonic stresses of "love" and "lov'st" by arranging the line such that ...

  9. Sonnet 84 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 84 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which has three quatrains, ... Most of the lines are examples of regular iambic pentameter, including the 11th line: