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Why do you think iambic pentameter is the meter most commonly used by

Shakespeare and most other writers who create verse?
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Answer:Shakespeare wrote iambic pentameter because that was the most common verse meter of the time. He didn't establish it. Edmund Spenser used it in The Faerie Queene

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