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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.

An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. An example of an iamb would be good BYE.

An iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

Iambic pentameter is a line of five iambs.

Example: "Go sad, or sweet, or riotous with beer."