by Higgins2 August 30, 2006
Each set of sounds has one that shall be stressed
and in these two shall there be one is not
of sets of two no less than five be wrought
and with these sets a subject be addressed
if with these lines one seeks to form a verse
the rhymes each line one first must understand
two sets of four the first and last shall stand
between lay those who differ from the first
at the end of all shall be six lines again
cointaineth they the rhythm of above
their rhyme can differ but I shall begin
with rhyme of three and then the same again
second different from those it is one of
'tis pit'ous that I lack a line to end
and in these two shall there be one is not
of sets of two no less than five be wrought
and with these sets a subject be addressed
if with these lines one seeks to form a verse
the rhymes each line one first must understand
two sets of four the first and last shall stand
between lay those who differ from the first
at the end of all shall be six lines again
cointaineth they the rhythm of above
their rhyme can differ but I shall begin
with rhyme of three and then the same again
second different from those it is one of
'tis pit'ous that I lack a line to end
by TTB March 16, 2004
Principal: You're fired.
Teacher: What for?
Principal: You don't teach anything.
Teacher: Yes I do. I'm currently teaching... I...am...err... Iambic pentameter.
Principal: Iambic what?
Teacher: It's a complex literary device. It's really important.
Principal: Oh, well then you'd better keep your job.
Teacher: What for?
Principal: You don't teach anything.
Teacher: Yes I do. I'm currently teaching... I...am...err... Iambic pentameter.
Principal: Iambic what?
Teacher: It's a complex literary device. It's really important.
Principal: Oh, well then you'd better keep your job.
by Failliam Suckspeare April 23, 2010
The bullshit that is forced upon english students worldwide. Completly subjective, yet somehow grade-able (how?).
I have to write an entire 3pg essay in iambic pentameter but i cant seem to hear the strssed and un-stressed syllables. FUCK!
by devdogg January 29, 2005
by Siphos August 4, 2004
Any series of remarks, or a single remark, of a high banter level; usually something witty, pretentious, urbane or academic in nature is best defined by Iambic Bantameter, a rhythm of speech best found in the casts of student productions of Shakespeare.
by abohemianisyou February 2, 2011
How can you not ship Iambic Prose?
by ThatShittyHomestuckWeeb October 27, 2018