Iambic pentameter..I Need HELP!!!?

Question

This is for school and i have to have four (4) lines of iambic petameter could someone please give me some ideas????????

I have to come up with something original

Answer 1

I wish I was a very rich woman
then I wouldn't have to work at this job
that makes me want to pull my hair out now
and I could eat all day and watch tv.

Answer 2

One of Shakespeare's sonnets: off the top of my head, Sonnet 17.

Who will believe my verse in time to come
if it were filled with your most high desserts?
tho yet Heav'n knows it is but as a tomb
that hides your face and shows not half your parts

if I could write the beauty of your eyes
and in fresh numbers number all your graces
the age to come would say "this poet lies"
such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces

so should my papers, yellowed with their age
be scorned like old men of less truth than tongue
and your true rights be termed a poet's rage
and antique meter of a stretched song.

but were some child of yours alive that time,
you should live twice; in it and in my rhyme

Or... richard III, also shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer by this son of york
and all the clouds that loured upon our house
in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

I'd stick with the first four lines of that poem. Simple, short, and they can stand alone.

Answer 3

It's really easy. Just write a sentence that follows the rhythm of "da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM", so that it has ten syllables and every other syllable is stressed (spoken more forcefully). Every group of two syllables (one stressed and one unstressed) is called an "iamb". So each line needs five iambs.

Here are some examples. The first is divided up so you can see each iamb:

The WOLF | stood IN | the WIN- | ter NIGHT | and HOWL'D.
or
My EYES are HO-llow LIKE my BIT-ter HEART.

Pathetic examples, but they show how it sounds. Of course, you don't need to show the actual stressed syllables in your lines. You just write it like a normal line of poetry.

If you are confused, try this site: http://shakespeare.about.com/od/studentresources/a/sonnetbasics.htm

Good luck!

Answer 4

come up with 5 lines of non rhyming satirical(ie irony sarcasminvective wit) verse on a current topic.
use your imagination
good luck

Answer 5

write about something you like.....food, a sport, a friend. This is what I did for school

I open a book
It's there that I find
Travel, Adventure
It stretches my mind.

that's the first line.

Answer 6

Anything from Shakespeare

Answer 7

I'm not into discus and javelin. The running is OK though.