If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

A “trochee” is the opposite, a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one; “double” and “trouble” are trochaic. “Pentameter” is a line of poetry containing five metrical feet—five iambs, for ...