There is an absolutely fascinating piece up at Believer Mag about Ben Thomas, editor of the Evening Whirl, an odd St. Louis crime tabloid that reported (almost always in iambic pentameter) the ...

From the depths of Macbeth’s torment to the loving declarations of Verona’s star-crossed lovers, the pulse of iambic pentameter sets the stage for William Shakespeare’s timeless explorations of the ...

Harold Mozley (Letters, 29 April) is wrong. “The mess we inherited from Labour” is an iambic tetrameter, not pentameter = three iambic beats, not five, on three second syllables. “Strong and stable ...

Lately, I’ve had Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‘ masterpiece Watchmen on hand as my go-to reading material for when I’ve had a free minute and I’ve read through it a few times over the past few weeks.If ...

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 ...

Joseph Fiennes listens in on a Shakespeare session at a South London evening class. Bruce Wall has taught Shakespeare across the world. His students include city bankers, Broadway actors and several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supervising sound editor, sound designer, and re-recording mixer Johnnie Burn has done everything from the almost ...

It is scary how addictive reading Deadpool talking in iambic pentameter is, as written by Ian Doescher and drawn by De Sousa Oliceira in today's Deadpool #21. but most impressive for me, was giving us ...

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.

Sally Potter's new film Yes is unusual in that its dialogue is entirely in iambic pentameter. The film takes its title from the last word of James Joyce's novel Ulysses — and is Potter's response to ...