Both Uses of
iambic pentameter
in
The Iliad
- 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.†
Book Intr.
- Shakespeare above all made it available for serious dramatic poetry, and Milton canonized unrhymed iambic pentameter for epic in Paradise Lost.†
Book Intr. *
Definition:
verse consisting of five parts per line, each part having an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable