Iambic Pentameter is a common meter in poetry that consists of an unrhymed line with five feet. Every foot must contain un unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.For example (Shakespeare Sonnet XVIII):
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
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