A style of poetry, known to the general public mainly through studying Shakespeare at school, where lines of a verse are split into five 'feet', or groups of syllables, with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
Iambic pentameter
Fact of the Day
The Latin word for an hour is hora. An hour made smaller is an hora minuta, from minuere (to lessen). An hour made smaller for a second time is an hora minuta secunda. From this, English has hours, minutes and seconds.
Quote of the Day
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
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~ Henry Ford
On This Day
1787 The 'First Fleet' of 11 ships carrying convicts to Australia left England.
1888 Slavery was abolished in Brazil.