When someone says that a sonnet has fourteen lines of iambic pentameter what does that mean?
a meter in poetry. It has an unrhymed line with 5 iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on the second syllable; an example is the word good-bye. Pentameter shows us that a line has 5 feet or clusters of two syllables adding up to 10 syllables a line. these feet are marked like this: Hello/hello/hello/hello/hello.