Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is a term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter.A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).Syllables are often considered the phonological building blocks of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic meter and its stress patterns.he first syllable of a word is the initial syllable and the last syllable is the final syllable. In languages accented on one of the last three syllables, the last syllable is called the ultima, the next-to-last is called the penult, and the third syllable from the end is called the antepenult.
Ten syllables to each line. These syllables are broken up into five pairs - this is the pentameter. The 'rhythm' of these syllables is the iambic part. Iambic just means that the first syllable is unstressed whilst the second syllable is stressed therefore the pattern is unstressed, stressed (five times). You may find that a lot of lines start with a stressed syllable (stress, unstress is a trochee) which is used for a stronger effect.