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- BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by… — Ambrose Bierce
- With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley
- You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.… — Vikram Seth
- I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing… — Bill Nighy
- Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — David Ogilvy
- It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're… — Neil Patrick Harris
- I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. — Howard Nemerov
- You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every… — Calvin Trillin
- What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that… — Libba Bray
- In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle
- In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of… — James Fenton
- The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton