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[[File:XKCD_iambic_5meter_2390.jpg|link=Xkcd
Sometimes in works, there is a certain kind,
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* The musical ''Les Demoiselles de Rochefort'' (''[[The Young Girls Of Rochefort]]'') has a scene in which everyone speaks in alexandrines (the classical French line and equivalent of the iambic pentameter.)
* [[James Gunn]] told [[Lloyd Kaufman]] he wrote ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'' completely in iambic pentameter. He didn't, but there is a lot of it.
* The medieval parts of [[Roger Corman]]'s ''[[The Undead (
== Literature ==
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* In [[The Particolored Unicorn]] by [[John De Cles]], all unicorns love to show off- some speak Sanskrit, some recite poetry, in order to be impressive pets. Lifesaver, the titular unicorn, speaks in iambic pentameter. As with the Etrigan example above, he drops it at one point in his excitement.
* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Tempest]]'' the dialog is pretty much entirely in iambic pentameter, mostly unrhymed.
* The [[Crazy Awesome|main character]] in [[The Wise
* [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] keeps doing this unintentionally in Busman's Holiday. The other characters lampshade it.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek:
{{quote| '''Ryan Stiles:''' Spock, ''put'' the ''trib''bles ''down'' and ''help'' me ''with'' the ''ship!''}}
* Maldis, a two-episode villain on ''[[
* In the third season of [[White Collar]], [[Conspiracy Theorist]] Mozzie has started ''knocking on Neal's door'' in iambic pentameter.
* An entire episode of ''[[Moonlighting]]'' consisted of lines in iambic pentameter. For bonus awesome, it was a hilarious parody of ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]].''
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* ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' wouldn't be itself without this.
* A video game example can be found ''[[
** This may be a reference to Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', in which the Witches speak trochaic tetrameter (four feet, alternating stress, starting with a stressed syllable) to help illustrate their otherworldly nature.
* Bastian in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' 9 speaks entirely in iambic pentameter. Elincia also uses it for a [[Rousing Speech]].
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
* Hibachi and the other [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] in ''[[
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* One of the languages you can view the fancomic ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Underdog (
* In the Hungarian translation of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', everybody speaks in rhymes. [[Mind Screw|MindScrewing]], indeed.
* Wordsworth in ''[[
* Japeth the mountain goat in ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' can't talk, only sing, [[Cursed
* A ''really'' gratuitous example from the third ''[[Madagascar]]'' film: "You FOOL! How COULD you LET them GET aWAY!?"
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