| Though the prevailing verse is iambic pentameter, we rarely find more than three or four real accents. |
| The rhythmic cadence of the poetry was not the iambic pentameter or other such metrical patterns but free verse with words scattered randomly across the printed page. |
| The iambic pentameter of Shakespeare's sonnets mimics the beat of the human heart. |
| The iambic pentameter in Elizabethan verse is so deep and rich in its poetry. |
| Our hearing is indissolubly wedded to five-beat Shakespearean blank verse, usually unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| The lovers speak entirely in iambic pentameter, which works much better than it should. |
