Iambic pentameter sonnet help?

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Can someone help me with my sonnets. I need someone dedicated and experienced with iambic pentameter and sonnet poetry.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Iambic pentameter is a poetical meter that was common in the Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) Era. All of Shakespeare's plays are written mostly in unrhymed ip verse, and all of his sonnets are written in ip. Ip is verse consisting of 5 iambs per line. An iamb is a metrical unit consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. For example, the following is an ip line: The ^mouse ran ^up the ^clock, the ^clock struck ^one. The 5 iambs here are: The ^mouse, ran ^up, the ^clock, the ^clock, struck ^one. Note that you cannot say this line as: ^The mouse ^ran up...etc., as that would be an unnatural stressing. When writing ip you follow the natural stress of the words.

When talking about sonnets, Shakespearean-type sonnets are usually meant, that is, the type of sonnet that Shakespeare wrote. A Shakespearean sonnet is a poem in of 14 lines in ip. The rhyme scheme is AB AB CD CD EF EF GG. In order to write a sonnet, you first select a specific topic - a subject that you really relate to, that inspires you - and then you fit the meter and rhyme scheme to it.

Alexandra10123 · Answer

Is there a name for sonnets that are written without iambic pentameter?

Anonymous · Answer

A sonnet, by definition, is written in iambic pentameter.

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