Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. One of the most famous examples of iambic pentameter is the opening passage of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet : The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM. Iambic pentameter (pronounced eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-i-ter ) is a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
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