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[[Self-Demonstrating Article|Gratuitous Iambic]] [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle|Penta-MET-er]].

<ref> An '''iamb''' is a pair of syllables where the stress falls on the second one - ba-DUM (if it goes DUM-ba it's a '''trochee'''). '''Penta'''meter is verse with five stressed syllables (tetrameter has four, heptameter has seven, etc), so iambic pentameter has five iambs (usually ten syllables, but odd unstressed ones at the beginning or end don't affect the meter much). This kind of verse is very common in [[Shakespeare]], as in for example "Un-EA-sy LIES the HEAD that WEARS a CROWN" ([[Henry IV Part 2]]). This trope can apply to any poetic dialogue though.</ref>

<ref>An '''iamb''' is a pair of syllables where the stress falls on the second one - ba-DUM (if it goes DUM-ba it's a '''trochee'''). '''Penta'''meter is verse with five stressed syllables (tetrameter has four, heptameter has seven, etc), so iambic pentameter has five iambs (usually ten syllables, but odd unstressed ones at the beginning or end don't affect the meter much). This kind of verse is very common in [[Shakespeare]], as in for example "Un-EA-sy LIES the HEAD that WEARS a CROWN" ([[Henry IV Part 2]]). This trope can apply to any poetic dialogue though.</ref>

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