Shakespearean Sonnet Basics: Iambic Pentameter and the English Sonnet Style. Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.
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