iambic pentameter
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iambic pentameter (usually uncountable, plural iambic pentameters)
A poetic meter consisting of lines with five iambic feet each, meaning the even syllables are dominant.
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In English poetry The term "hendecasyllable" is sometimes used in English poetry to describe a line of iambic pentameter with an extra short syllable at the end, as in the first line of John Keats 's Endymion : "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."
The stanza's main meter is iambic pentameter with a final line in iambic hexameter (having six feet or stresses, known as an Alexandrine ), and the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc.
Some patterns (such as iambic pentameter) tend to be fairly regular, while other patterns, such as dactylic hexameter, tend to be highly irregular.
This poem is arranged into three stanzas of four lines in iambic tetrameter followed by a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter.
Though the Baron still takes sadistic enjoyment in the suffering of others, he is portrayed as somewhat flamboyant, pompous, calculating and self-indulgent, with a tendency to speak in iambic pentameter when the mood strikes him.