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 ...

Iambic pentameter is briefly discussed and a definition is provided. How to use iambic pentameter is demonstrated to a group of students who then practise how to use it by reading out their birthdays.

It's poetry — rhyming couplets written in perfect iambic pentameter, those ten-syllable lines of alternating emphasis made famous by authors of sonnets and blank verse. But unlike your average metered ...