Freshmen students should know that Shakespeare wrote his plays predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter. A line of poetry is composed of feet or units of rhythm in verse. An iambic foot is composed of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Pentameter is a poetic line made up of five feet. I write examples of iambic pentameter on the board. The capitalized words are emphasized, and the slash indicates the end of each foot: My GRAVE /…..
