William Baer, founder and editor of The Formalist, said he`s amazed at the number of people who don`t understand metrics in poetry ... or ”feet” in the iambic meter. Shakespeare generally ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

Anyway, he’s fully qualified to tell you about iambic pentameter. “Rhyme’s Rooms” is loosely arranged as a guide to poetry’s structures ... In a chapter on meter, for instance ...

Poetry, like music, can be very rhythmical, so Joe introduces us to these aspects of syllabic meter, such as iambic pentameter. He focuses on rhythm in spoken word poetry and how poems can really ...

You might stress a syllable to help with the rhythm of a line in a piece of poetry, or you might do it ... and that sonnet is set with the rhythm of iambic pentametre, which yes, might sound ...

But for a computer to understand and translate poetry, there are added problems of length, meter and rhyme ... A Shakespeare sonnet in iambic pentameter? The computer can read a pronunciation ...

The meter that underlies all the poetry to the 20th Century is usually iambic,” he said. ”It begins with Chaucer and `The Canterbury Tales,` and it comes forward through Shakespeare and Milton ...