five-stress

This passage is in blank verse, that is, iambic pentameter, which is to say in a five-stress line composed of five 'feet' ( 'penta' means 'five') that move iambically from an unstressed to a stressed syllable: 'And all the clouds that loured upon our house'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

There is, unquestionably, a natural "iambic" roll in English prose, due to the predominant alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in our native tongue, but when Dickens -- to cite what John Wesley would call "an eminent sinner" in this respect -- inserts in his emotional prose line after line of five-stress "iambic" verse, we feel instinctively that the presence of the blank verse impairs the true harmony of the prose.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

The characteristics of Shakespeare's blank verse -- the rhymeless, iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter, introduced into

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590

In the early _Love's Labour's Lost_ are more than one thousand rhyming five-stress iambic lines; in _The Tempest_ are only two; in _The Winter's Tale_ not one.

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590

"blank" or unrhymed five-stress lines of Marlowe and Shakspere and Milton, and as we listened it was easy to believe that "stress" and "quantity" and

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme "as five-stress iambic, rhyming _aa_.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907