ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare’s sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Detailed explanation-2: -All true sonnets are written in the rhythm pattern called iambic pentameter. This means that there are five metric feet in a line of poetry, with each two syllable foot having the accent on the second syllable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Iambic pentameter (pronounced eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-i-ter) is a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.

Detailed explanation-4: -Iambic pentameter is a rhythm structure, used most commonly in poetry, that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five. Pentameter is the most famous meter for iambic poetry, but it’s not the only one-there’s dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, etc.