FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
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The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
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Only one syllable for the length of a foot
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trochees in Shakespeare’s King Lear Although the play is written, like most of Shakespeare’s plays, in iambic pentameter, Shakespeare substitutes trochees for all five iambs in the final line to demarcate a heightening of emotion and to create the tone of a wail. And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no, no life!
Detailed explanation-2: -William Shakespeare famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets, John Milton in his Paradise Lost, and William Wordsworth in The Prelude. As lines in iambic pentameter usually contain ten syllables, it is considered a form of decasyllabic verse.
Detailed explanation-3: -Trochaic rhythm: made up of troches. The opposite of iambic, a trochaic rhythm has a pattern of stressed/unstressed accent conventionally represented/U /U / U / U . . .
Detailed explanation-4: -When Shakespeare wrote in verse, he most often used a form called iambic pentameter. Iamb, or iambic foot, is a poetic unit of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (de-DUM.) Pentameter is the Greek word for five.