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How do I write in Iambic Pentameter?

>> No.15048809
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15048809

>>15048793
write a line of verse comprised of five iambs.

>> No.15048839

Checks and balances by the curb
Steps to amateurs flyin' birds
Connected annual to a buyin' surge
Expectin' the amateurs to try and merge
To try and lessen the blesses, but you can never lessen the connection of the indefinite pentameter Ryan serves tryin' words
This is Category A
Definition, battered slave of yesterday
Recognition by cattle
Present picture, a guy battles sexuality in tight apparel, eyeshadow
That's not deep, I'm shallow

>> No.15048844

>>15048793
da-duh da-duh da-duh da-duh da-duh

>> No.15048845

>>15048793
You count in time each line you write with care
And you can make the lines rhyme if you dare

>> No.15048902

>>15048809
And what is the iambs worth?

>>15048844
I'm confused.

>>15048845
But what time?

>> No.15049522

>>15048902
I don’t know what is causing you trouble
It is pretty much just ten syllables

>> No.15050108

>>15048793
Make SURE the STRESS falls ON each SECond SOUND.

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15050139

7 syllables >>> 10 syllables

>> No.15050160

It's 10 syllable lines, with emphasis naturally falling on second syllables.

Shall I comPARE thee TO a SUMMers DAY?

>> No.15050163

>>15050108
And make sure that the quantity of stress
Is never more or less than five per line.

>> No.15050177

>>15050160
that line sounds retarded when you read it like that, especially stressing the "to". this is more natural:

SHALL i compARE thee to a SUMMer's DAY?

>> No.15051601

>>15050177
That's not how it works though, retard. An unstressed syllable is always followed by a stressed syllable, even if it may sound better done in some funky ass way you want to wrongly call "iambic pentameter".

>> No.15052918

>>15048793
count to five
wash yer hands
count to five
wash yer hands

>> No.15052932

>>15048845
>>15049522
These are not in iambic pentameter

>> No.15052947

>>15048793
oP is SUCH a MASSive FAG

>> No.15052964

>>15052932
Actually maybe the first is apologies. 'rhyme if' seems trochaic to me not iambic though that could just be my English accent.
The second is mostly trochaic, not fair at all to call it iambic. Work on your scansion young man.

>> No.15052980

>>15051601
what the fuck are you talking about. i didn't call anything iambic pentameter. taht line is not iambic pentameter. you don't scan a poem by forcing it into some specified meter you were told it's written in. shakespeare didn't write in iambic pentameter btw, that's a myth

>> No.15052990

>>15052947
What you just wrote was in tetrameter

>> No.15053004

>>15052980
ok but op's quostion was "how do i write in iambic pentameter"
calm down fag

>> No.15053006

Although deemed it was, my dear August King,
Slain were they, thy children, blobs in a sling.