An iamb is a metrical unit, or a foot of meter, made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (alive, forget, a dog). Pentameter refers to the number of iambs in the line (penta is the Greek word for five, as in a pentagon). So there are five iambs in a line of iambic pentammeter. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. Here are two examples from Romeo and Juliet. (' bold ' means stressed and ' italics ' means unstressed). My grave is like to be my wed ding bed.
Not to be confused with Kiowa, Oklahoma. Kiowa County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,446. Its county seat is Hobart. The county was created in 1901 as part of Oklahoma Territory. It was named for the Kiowa people.
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