Iambic pentameter is thought to be the sound of natural conversation and so poets will often use it to create a conversational or natural feel to the poem. Although iambs, the da-DUM pattern ...

Iambic pentameter is briefly discussed and a definition is provided. How to use iambic pentameter is demonstrated to a group of students who then practise how to use it by reading out their birthdays.

A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, with a particular rhyme scheme that Shakespeare mastered like no other. The main difference ...

If ringmaster, Tom Littler, leaned any further into that Shakey in this production, he’d fall right out of his Orange Tree, ...