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 ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, ...

A line of five feet, each of which is an iamb, that is to say, each of which is a ti-tum. As opposed to a tum-ti. Ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum In fact, if you analyse a passage of blank verse, ...

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 ...