iambic pentameter

North of Copenhagen is the city of Elsinore, home to the castle where Hamlet takes place, with its wandering ghosts, ill-advised eavesdropping behind the drapes, conversations with skulls, and deadly duels in iambic pentameter.

The games were meant to show the various types of poetic meter: iambic pentameter, for example, which William Shakespeare used to marvelous effect in many of his poems and plays.

“Still, it was kind of the girls to write. I shall send each one a lengthy thank-you note, perhaps in iambic pentameter, if the mood strikes.”

“Iambic pentameter, and a rhyming couplet, too,” she said, pleased with her effort.

“More iambic pentameter, ta-TUM, ta-TUM, hooRAY, hooRAY,” she said to herself as she signed her name at the bottom.