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im trying to write in iambic pentameter and this is all i could come up with. does this make sense?  "He was appointed to chancellorship"

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

If spoken in a normal way, it is not iambic pentameter.

Anonymous · Answer

Iambic pentameter is a type of poetical meter. It is composed of 5 iambs, an iamb being a metrical unit consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. (Note that all of Shakespeare's plays are written mostly in unrhymed iambic pentameter verse - his sonnets are written in rhymed iambic pentameter.) The stress pattern in a line of ip verse is therefore: _^ _^ _^ _^ _^.

An example if ip is the line: The ^mouse ran ^up the ^clock, the ^clock struck ^one. Here the 5 iambs are: The ^mouse, ran ^up, the ^clock, the ^clock, struck ^one. When you write in ip you follow the natural stress pattern of the words. Note that you cannot say the line as: ^The mouse ^ran up ^the clock..., since that would be unnatural stressing of the words.

The line you wrote is not ip. You'd have to change it to something like: He ^was a ^man who ^got the ^chancellor^ship. Here the 5 iambs are: He ^was, a ^man, who ^got, the ^chance, llor ^ship.

Anonymous · Answer

I take that back.  The line you wrote is iambic pentameter:  He ^was ap^pointed ^to the ^chance^llor^ship.

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