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Iambic Pentameter couplet

senecan
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since 2006-05-07

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0 posted 2006-05-07 01:55 PM

Hi folks, Im new here on these boards and Im taking Introduction to Literature in college. My professor is giving a final exam next week, and he is asking us to write our own rhyming couplet in Iambic Pentameter. I understand that Pentamer has five feet and Iambic is unaccented followed by accented. The problem I am having is I can't seem to put two lines together to form this. Could someone please guide me in the write direction...thanks.

~Keith

Nan

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1 posted 2006-05-08 07:14 AM

Think of a theme... Write a couple of lines... Then it can be tweaked into iambic pentameter pretty easily...

doreen_peri

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2 posted 2006-05-08 11:37 AM

Hi! It goes like this...

taDA taDA taDA taDA taDA

5 of them = pentameter
Stresses on the DAs.

Example - 2 rhyming iambic pentameter couplets...

Some say that writing verse is simple, yet
It's not so easy and we oft' forget
To write the verse the way we speak and so
The syllables quite naturally flow.

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