Iambic pentameter.

If there are two syllables in a step, the former is light and the latter is heavy, then this step is called iambic step, and its technical term is (iamb, iambic. ). Light reading is "inhibition" and stress is "promotion", so it is called iambic.

There are a large number of words in English, and their pronunciations are light and heavy, such as admiration, excitement, superiority, surrounding, appearance, desire, attack, supply, belief, return and so on. So it is convenient to write English poems in iambic. In other words, iambic rhymes conform to the rules of English pronunciation. So iambic is the most commonly used in English poetry, and 90% of English poetry is written in iambic. The first two poems are iambic poems.

Empty house

Alexander Pope

You hit your head, and your wisdom will appear:

Please knock at the door, there is no one at home.

You pat your head and feel that inspiration will come soon. Knock all you want. Nobody will open the door. Head, head. Imagine, verb: think, imagine. )

The basic prosodic type of this poem is iambic, with five steps per line. So the meter of this poem is called iambic pentameter. The beat of a poem is composed of the type and number of steps contained in the line.