In class, he was mesmerizing, delivering iambic pentameter in a sonorous voice inwitty lectures.
Examples of 'iambic pentameter' in a sentence
iambic pentameter
There are critics who deny that iambic pentameter even exists.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
The metrical rhythm of iambic pentameter, she writes, mimics the pattern of a heartbeat.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
There are times he seems to speak in iambic pentameter.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
That is what hip-hop is, and that is what iambic pentameter was.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Surely there is a much more subtle rhythm working against the underlying iambic pentameter?
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
He is devoted, too, to the classic tum-ti-tum of iambic pentameter, an ideal rhythm for elegy and regret.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
As we read them, we can hear in the background, almost unconsciously, the regular thudding of the iambic pentameter: di-dum-di-dum-di-dum-di-dum-di-dum.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Readers love her, but her fellow poets don't seem in any rush to hear her views on the iambic pentameter.