A fork of Rural Dictionary
Each set of sounds has one that shall be stressed and in these two shall there be one is not of sets of two no less than five be wrought and with these sets a subject be addressed if with these lines one seeks to form a verse the rhymes each line one first must understand two sets of four the first and last shall stand between lay those who differ from the first at the end of all shall be six lines again cointaineth they the rhythm of above their rhyme can differ but I shall begin with rhyme of three and then the same again second different from those it is one of 'tis pit'ous that I lack a line to end
A conspiracy theory that gives English teachers a job.
Principal: You're fired. Teacher: What for? Principal: You don't teach anything. Teacher: Yes I do. I'm currently teaching... I...am...err... Iambic pentameter. Principal: Iambic what? Teacher: It's a complex literary device. It's really important. Principal: Oh, well then you'd better keep your job.
The bullshit that is forced upon english students worldwide. Completly subjective, yet somehow grade-able (how?).
I have to write an entire 3pg essay in iambic pentameter but i cant seem to hear the strssed and un-stressed syllables. FUCK!
Any series of remarks, or a single remark, of a high banter level; usually something witty, pretentious, urbane or academic in nature is best defined by Iambic Bantameter, a rhythm of speech best found in the casts of student productions of Shakespeare.
My life is written in Iambic Bantameter.
iambic pentameter: a poetic meter consisting of a line with five feet in each of which the iamb is dominant. argh: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration. iambic pentametARGH!: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration about iambic pentameter.
"iambic pentametARGH!" - says a pirate