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Patrick Staff and Grace Schofield
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The sign is outside hayes court (the big building we live in), camberwell new road, london, se5 0tq.
When you come out the back door there is a courtyard and a small garden and recycling bins and that sort of thing, and it is nailed to the wall there. it's a big communal space for all the people that live in the flats.
Our sign reads:
IAMBIC PENTAMETER IS A METER IN POETRY
An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. We could write the rhythm like this:
daDUM
A line of iambic pentameter is five of these in a row:
da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da
The following line from John Keats' ode To Autumn is a good example:
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
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