Day 1,336: iambic pentameter
Over 100m people have asked it to rewrite ikea furniture instructions in iambic pentameter or something equally vital.
Artwork of the day
Pentameter
Ruth Vollmer
Date: 1965
Style: Minimalism
Genre: sculpture
Word of the day
iambic: used to refer to a rhythm (= pattern of words) used in poetry, in which each short syllable that is not stressed is followed by a long or stressed syllable.
pentameter: a line in poetry which has five stressed syllables; the rhythm of poetry with five stressed syllables in a line
Quote of the day
“I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.”
― Howard Nemerov