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Iambic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter. Ben Shapiro P.1 AP Literature Mrs. Patterson 10 March 2012. Rhythym. Iambic Pentameter follows a pattern of unstressed, stressed symbols: u/u/u/u/u/ (pattern found in a sonnet) . Into My Own by Robert Frost.

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Iambic Pentameter

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  1. Iambic Pentameter Ben Shapiro P.1 AP Literature Mrs. Patterson10 March 2012

  2. Rhythym • Iambic Pentameter follows a pattern of unstressed, stressed symbols: • u/u/u/u/u/ (pattern found in a sonnet)

  3. Into My Own by Robert Frost / U / U / U / U / UOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, / U / U / U / U / U So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, / U / U / U / U / U Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, / U / U / U / U / U But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

  4. My Own Verse / U / U / U / U / U What here is this rumbling of all dark sounds? / U / U / U / U / U Will God bring Hell up? To us the People? / U / U / U / U / The ring and rumble strike deep in our towns. / U / U / U / U / U Nothing remains, for he left his steeple.

  5. Works Cited Frost, Robert. "Robert Frost (1874-1963)." Robert Frost. 20 Jan. 1997. Web. 10 Mar. 2012. <http://www.sonnets.org/frost.htm>. Meyer, Michael. "Poetic Forms." The Bedford introduction to literature: reading, thinking, writing. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2005. 915. Print.

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