Question

Which of the following lines of poetry is an example of iambic pentameter?

“If such there were—with you, the moral of his strain.”

“So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,”

“Meet in her aspect and her eyes:”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more,”

Answer 1

It’s the last one “I love not man the less, but nature more” bec an iambic pentameter is supposed to have 10 syllables and only that one has exactly 10