What part of speech is stressed in an iambic pentameter?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

To learn if your poem is in iambic pentameter, an understanding of iambic and pentameter is required.

Iambic:

To achieve the " iambic " you need a word that you choose not to emphasize followed immediately by a word that you choose to emphasize.

For example: the boy

To make ' the boy ' iambic, the word ' the ' must be spoken lightly [unemphasized] and the word ' boy ' must be spoken firmly [emphasized].

That is: the boy

Other examples: a lamb; my pie; yan-kee

Pentameter:

Place five iambics consecutively and you have pentameter.

Example of iambic pentameter from modified Shakespeare:

to be or not to be that is to see

to be / or not / to be / that is / to see

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

Answer 2

So, I wrote a Sonnet and I have the rhyme scheme down. I know it's 14 lines and 10 syllables per line, but it's just the pentameter that's getting me.

Here's my sonnet. Help would be appreciated.

The killing blow took my staggering breath;

The tick of my sad heart began to slow.

Oh, how it yearned for the arms of sweet death,

When his eyes looked at me then turned to go.

So broken were the weighted promises;

So cold was my skin as the time went by.

All I could feel was the wasted kisses

On my frozen lips, my memory's sigh.

New tears could not fall in fear of no end,

Though thoughts revolved on what could not be changed.

I asked for redemption, he would not bend.

Then nothing mattered and words weren't exchanged.

Time kept turning, I accepted defeat;

A hard lesson learned: no love holds deceit.

Answer 3

In iambic pentameter, the stressed syllable is typically the second syllable in each pair of syllables. This emphasizes a regular pattern of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables, creating a sense of rhythm and flow in poetry.

Answer 4

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