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iambic pentameter
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    The roots of iambic pentameter were deeply pagan.†  (source)
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    Everything was passed through the stark prism of their experiences and they just bled onto the page-sometimes awkwardly and, God knows, far from iambic pentameter-but often with a stunning inventiveness.†  (source)
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    The miracle of the sonnet, you see, is that it is fourteen lines long and written almost always in iambic pentameter.†  (source)
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    Shakespeare above all made it available for serious dramatic poetry, and Milton canonized unrhymed iambic pentameter for epic in Paradise Lost.†  (source)
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    Iambic pentameter was a symmetrical meter based on the sacred Illuminati numbers of 5 and 2!†  (source)
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    English blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, was developed from Italian models in the sixteenth century and used for epic in Henry Howard's translations from The Aeneid of 1539-46.†  (source)
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    Iambic pentameter.†  (source)
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    Iambic pentameter, on account of its simplicity, was often called "pure verse" or "pure meter."†  (source)
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    For centuries, iambic pentameter had been a preferred poetic meter of outspoken literati across the globe, from the ancient Greek writer Archilochus to Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Voltaire—bold souls who chose to write their social commentaries in a meter that many of the day believed had mystical properties.†  (source)
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    It would have destroyed the poem's iambic pentameter.†  (source)
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    He heard the rhythms of iambic pentameter and chanting, Hieros Gamos and sacred rites, resonating with the rumble of the jet.†  (source)
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    The school baseball star, Peter Greer, was having trouble remembering the number of couplets necessary for a line of Shakespearean iambic pentameter.†  (source)
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    Again, in iambic pentameter.†  (source)
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