For Iambic: According to an online dictionary: a metrical foot, line, or stanza of verse consisting of iambs.
For Pentameter: If you know a little of Greek, Penta means FIVE, Meter means Measure.
Iambic pentameter is meter that Shakespeare nearly always used when writing in verse. Most of his plays were written in iambic pentameter, except for lower-class characters who speak in prose.
Iambic Pentameter has:
Ten syllables in each line
Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables
It sounds like this:
ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM
I hope this will help you solving your doubts.
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Fortunately you wrote about the Iambic pentameter, I thought it was something like 5 syllables per verse but I was a little confuse because I counted 10 all the time.
ReplyDeleteNow I understand it meant that there were 5 pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables
Thanks :D
You're very welcome.
ReplyDeleteMiss Monica, I couldn’t finish the practice we took in the class, so here it is.
ReplyDelete1) What is the structure of a Shakesperean sonnet?
It’s a 14 line poem, usually composed in iambic pentameter, employing one or several rhymes.
A shakesperean sonnet is like an essay because it presents the problem (in the first paragraph) and in the last paragraph he solve de problem.
2) Explain what is iambic pentameter.
Iambic pentameter describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet".
-The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used.
-The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet".
3)Give two reasons explaining why Sonnet XVIII cannot be a love poem.
-In the last lines of this sonnet he says that we are going to live in his poems, and this is a little bit egocentric.
4)In your opinion, why is Shakespeare so relevant?
I think that Shakespeare is relevant for a lot of reasons.
-Attractive characters: People who read all her stories, poems, they find amazing characters and they feel very identified with them and when a character is suffering they suffer too.
-Great stories: Every emotion that people always has, Shakespeare has written all, that’s why he has written great stories.
-Everything he wrote we use nowadays, for example expressions.
5)What is the meaning of Renaissance?
The Renaissance (French word for "rebirth) was a cultural movement in the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.
In this period people began to think about their selves and started making questions about God, etc.
I got confused with the Iambic pentameter at the beggining, but now that I read this, it helped me to understand the way of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables (and to notice why I got that mark in the exam you delivered us today too).
ReplyDeleteAnd once again, thank you miss :D
I saw this entry a few days ago but I don't think I got the idea, it's a little bit confusing.
ReplyDeleteI think that now that I have read it like a thousand times I finally understood what you meant.
Thank you Miss!
Finally I understood Iambic Pentameter!, it's a little bit confusing but thanks to the explanation that you gave in class and also thanks to this blog I could finally see that it is not so difficult.
ReplyDeleteI hope I get a better mark in the next quiz..I must say that I WILL get a better mark..but still hoping jaja
Thanks again!
Alejandra Lozano Canales
5º
I understood it the first time when you explained it in the class. This I'm going to use it to study. I'm impressed that Shakespeare used this pentameter in all his poetry. It is very difficult to calculate all of this and do it. And it is wonderful that other writers use this Iambic Pentameter.
ReplyDeleteAlba Lucia
I thought it was more difficult but now it seems easier, I was really confuced.I am not really good at theory or grammar haha...!
ReplyDeleteSO hopefuly I´ll get a better mark in the monthly exam.
thanks,
Karla Rivas Plata R
I thought it was difficult but with this explanation wow it´s easy !!!
ReplyDeletethank miss for postting this that help us to remember or understand what you mention in class.
Cristina Cruz
At first time it was very difficult to me, beacausei need to remenber a lot of structures and many names, but now I think that the ancient English it is amazing.
ReplyDeleteA part of that I dicover that shakepear had a lot of fantastics poems.
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maria paula
I don't know why I used to find this difficult, actually it is very easy 10 syllables, 5 stressed and 5 unstressed. This will be very useful for tomorrow's exam. Thanks :)
ReplyDeletehi miss,
ReplyDeleteThe term was adopted to describe the equivalent meter in English poetry, where an iamb refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic rhythms come relatively naturally in English. Iambic pentameter is among the most common metrical forms in English poetry: it is used in many of the major English poetic forms, including blank verse, the heroic couplet, and many of the traditional rhymed stanza forms.
I actually find it confussing but in the in it was simple to understand but for me is still dificult to use.
Majo rivas Plata.
4:"b" sec
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteIambic pentameter is a meter, rhyme and rhythm pattern in poetry. Iambic pentameter can be seen in most major renaissance and medieval poetry. Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare were all famous for the use of iambic pentameter in their writing. Iambic refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Pentameter means there are five beats or meters per line.
William Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, wrote poetry and drama in iambic pentameter. Here is an example from his Sonnet XVIII:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
When read aloud, such verse naturally follows a beat. There is some debate over whether works such as Shakespeare's was originally performed with the rhythm prominent, or whether it was disguised by the patterns of normal speech as is common today. In written form, the rhythm looks like this:
da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM (weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG) Shall I com - PARE thee TO a SUM mer's DAY
I found this very hard , until I read for the second time , it is amazing how many , shall I say techniques? , are poetry.
It's absolutely a hole new world , at least for me.
Alexandra Cánepa
4to B Sec.
Hi miss, well at firts I didn't understand it but then I start to read and try to analyse it and I finally had understand it, I see there are many things I don't really know but now with this course yes. Thanks miss n_n
ReplyDeleteErika Vásquez 4to B
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteAt first, I've got some problems to understand what was the Iambic pentameter about, I got confussed when I heard it was that a line has to be read in 5 syllabes, and a line could have a lot of words so I didn't understand it at the beggining, but I've already got it. Thanks for that miss.
Kisses,
Karla Keiko.
Hi Miss,to tell you the truth, the first time you mention that the Shakespearean sonnet has Iambic Pentameter, i didn´t know what was it neither how it was, once i started to analize the poem and heard it when you read it ,I could really noticed what it was and how were the syllables of the words in the verses pronounced.
ReplyDeleteBye
Sara Fernández
Form 5