Iambic pentameter
371 poems
Ten syllables, five beats: iambic pentameter is the line of Shakespeare and English poetry. Read examples on Loëly.
It is most true
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil and Stella
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0To a Cat
John Keats
001. - Come back to me, who wait and watch for you
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
0011. - Many in aftertimes will say of you
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
0012. - If there be any one can take my place
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
002. - I wish I could remember that first day
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
003. - I dream of you to wake
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
005. - O my heart's heart
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
006. - Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
007. - Love me, for I love you
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
00A dream of Death
William B. Yeats
00A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
Ben Jonson
00Accurs'D Be He That First Invented War
Christopher Marlowe
00An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage
Katherine Philips
00At The Sun-Rise In 1848
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
00Birds
Oliver Goldsmith
00Book IV - Thus, while he spoke, already She began
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
00Book VI - Then thus reply'd the Prophetess Divine
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
00By Night when Others Soundly Slept
Anne Bradstreet
00Cain and Abel
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
00Canto I - ‘Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart
George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
00Canto IV - But I have lived, and have not lived in vain
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
00Chance
Helen Hunt Jackson
00Characters
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
00Come not when I am dead
Alfred Lord Tennyson
00Critic and Poet: an Epilogue
Emma Lazarus
00Crossing the Bar
Alfred Lord Tennyson
00Crown 1
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
00Crown 14
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
00Crown 6
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
00Crown 8
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
00Crown Sonnet -
Mary Wroth
00Crown Sonnet - My Muse, now happy
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
00Crown Sonnet - O! that no day
Mary Wroth
00Crown Sonnet - When I beheld
Mary Wroth
00Desertion
Rupert Brooke
00Dirge Of The Dead Sisters
Rudyard Kipling
00Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
00Eloisa to Abelard
Alexander Pope
00Epistle I
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
00Eternity Of Love Protested
Thomas Carew
00Expostulation and Reply
William Wordsworth
00Freedom
Helen Hunt Jackson
00Hamlet, Act III
William Shakespeare
00He Who Hath Glory Lost
James Joyce
Chamber Music
00Hellas
Oscar Wilde
00Help Lord
Francis Bacon
00I Shall Return
Claude McKay
00If...
Rudyard Kipling
00II - But only three in all God’s universe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
00III - Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart !
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
00Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
Thomas Carew
00IV - Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
00IX - Can it be right to give what I can give?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
00La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats
00Love - I
George Herbert
00Love In A Life
Robert Browning
00Love's Witness
Aphra Behn
00LXV
Anna Seward
00LXXXVI
Anna Seward
00Other themes
