PENTAMETER:
Penta means 5
Meter: means rhythm
IAMB: (the sound of the human heart) two syllables which fall into an unstressed/stressed rhythm.
BLANK VERSE: UNRHYMED VERSE IN IAMBIC PENTAMETER.
SHAKESPEARE WROTE MOSTLY IN BLANK VERSE.
Shakespeare’s verse did not usually rhyme, but he did frequently use iambic pentameter – or blank verse. If you count how many syllables Shakespeare used in each line, it was usually ten syllables or five iambs.
The well born characters or lovers in Shakespeare’s plays frequently used blank verse, or rhymed verse, particularly when they were speaking of love or other rarified topics.
Well-born or aristocratic depressants (Romeo, Hamlet, etc) were thought to have more elevated, rarified sensibilities. They were considered to be more artistic, poetic, to be more intelligent and to have more highly developed sensibilities.
The comic characters, such as servants, used prose.
Shakespeare used accent marks over the last syllable of “ed” words to maintain the iambic pentameter of a line.
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