@rebbel et al. Iambic pentameter is a bit tricky to use seeing you are restricted to the number of syllables you can use and where the stress lies on each word. Dictionary.com describes it as:
a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Languageisavirus.com states it as:
_ An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. We could write the rhythm like this:_
da-DUM
A line of iambic pentameter is five of these in a row:
da-DUM-da-DUM-da- DUM-da-DUM-da-DUM
We can notate this is with a ‘x’ mark representing an unstressed syllable and a ’/’ mark representing a stressed syllable (for a more detailed discussion see the article on Systems of Scansion). In this notation a line of iambic pentameter would look like this:
x / x / x / x / x /
The following line from John Keats’ ode To Autumn is a straightforward example:
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
We can notate the scansion of this as follows:
x / x / x / x / x /
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
Some of you have to many syllables……FYI 8—)