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Which line is an example of iambic pentameter?

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Iambic Pentameter Examples

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Shakespeare's sonnet 18 starts 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? '. This line of poetry has five feet,so it's written in pentameter. And the stressing pattern is all iambs (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable):

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