Iambic pentameter, a common meter in English poetry, is based on a normative sequence of five iambic feet or iambs, each consisting of a relatively unstressed syllable ( here represented with "×" above the syllable ) followed by a relatively stressed one ( here represented with "/" above the syllable ) — " da-DUM "

Iambic pentameter and dactylic hexameter were later used by a number of poets, including William Shakespeare and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, respectively.

* Iambic pentameter

" Iambic pentameter verse lines in both parts are irregular when using the name " Falstaff ", but correct with " Oldcastle ".

" Iambic pentameter verse lines in both parts are irregular when using the name " Falstaff ," but correct with " Oldcastle.

Iambic pentameter ( from Greek: meaning to have five iambs ) is a commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama.

Iambic pentameter is a line made up of five such pairs of short / long, or unstressed / stressed, syllables.

Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in English poetry ; it is used in many of the major English poetic forms, including blank verse, the heroic couplet, and some of the traditional rhymed stanza forms.

Iambic pentameter must always contain only five feet, and the second foot is almost always an iamb.

Iambic pentameter became the prevalent meter in English.

The term " hendecasyllable " is sometimes used in English poetry to describe a line of iambic pentameter with an extra short syllable at the end, as in the first line of John Keats's Endymion: " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

Beginning famously with the line " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ", Endymion, like many epic poems in English ( including John Dryden's translations of Virgil and Alexander Pope's translations of Homer ), is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter ( also known as heroic couplets ).

The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse.

The blank verse of Keats in Hyperion is mainly modelled on that of Milton, but takes fewer liberties with the pentameter and possesses the characteristic beauties of Keats's verse.

In fact, the skillful variation of iambic pentameter, rather than the consistent use of it, may well be what distinguishes the rhythmic artistry of Donne, Shakespeare, Milton, and the 20th century sonneteer Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The rhythm of iambic pentameter was emphasised in Kenneth Branagh's 2000 production of Love's Labour's Lost, in a scene where the protagonists tap-dance to the " Have at you now, affection's men-at-arms " speech.

William Shakespeare used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets.

Drama in English often used alexandrines before Marlowe and Shakespeare, by whom it was supplanted by iambic pentameter ( 5-foot verse ).

The characters perform the Shakespearean dialogue in iambic pentameter, and the episode was wrapped by segments featuring a boy imagining the episode's proceedings because his mother forced him to do his Shakespeare homework instead of watching Moonlighting, which the mother described as " That show about two detectives?

In 2005, Rathvon's play Trapezium, a comedy in iambic pentameter, was produced by the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival.

Most poets who have a great facility for iambic pentameter frequently vary the rhythm of their poetry as Donne and Shakespeare do in the examples, both to create a more interesting overall rhythm and to highlight important thematic elements.

They appear more often in the work of such masters of iambic pentameter as Edmund Spenser and Shakespeare.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

* 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £ 10.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

* On His Blindness by John Milton

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

In due course, opposition to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet John Milton in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

Nonetheless, epics have been written down at least since the works of Virgil, Dante Alighieri, and John Milton.

** Paradise Lost by John Milton ( 1667 )

** Paradise Regained by John Milton ( 1671 )

His journal was first published in 1694, after editing by Thomas Ellwood — a friend and associate of John Milton — with a preface by William Penn.

Another writer influenced by the plot was John Milton, who in 1626 wrote what one commentator has called a " critically vexing poem ", In Quintum Novembris.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

John Milton Hay ( October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905 ) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

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This phenomenon was described in detail by John Elder Robison ( a former Milton Bradley engineer ) in his book Look Me in the Eye.

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English poet

* Milton ( horse ), a show jumping horse ridden by John Whitaker

The importance of Machiavelli's influence is notable in many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith.