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If you're genuinely saying that some random person made up iambic pentameter...wtf? All you have to do is read the lines aloud and you can see they have ten syllables each, generally with the alternate syllables emphasised. That's all iambic pentameter is - ti tum, ti tum, ti tum, ti tum, ti tum. It doesn't apply to every line Shakespeare ever wrote (the lower-class characters don't use it, some lines are just too short, and some simply don't fit) but it applies to a lot of it.
examples: "if music be the food of love, play on", "so long as men can breathe and eyes can see/so long lives this, and this gives life to thee", "what is love? 'tis not hereafter/present mirth hath present laughter", "give me your hands, if we be friends/and Robin shall restore amends" (8 syllables rather than 10 for those two, but the rhythm's the same).
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AUTHOR OF THIS MESSAGE
Jazzy
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13 february 2009, 06:15:00
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