How to pronounce“iambic”in English

So when Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter, or Salinger uses a red hunting cap, they aren’t doing this so that your English teachers will

My two-year-old son regularly uses iambic pentameter, like every time he says, "Daddy, I want to go to Steak N Shake." Iambic pentameter is a way of reflecting

Someone will ask him to create poetry in iambic pentameter.

Gretchen: We just want you to do that iambic

But when I’m trying to remember the sound of iambic pentameter, I just remember John Keats’s last will and testament, which was one line of iambic pentameter.

John Keats' last will and testament was a single line of iambic pentameter: My chest of books divide among my friends.

As lines of verse go, the alexandrine is just two syllables longer than Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, but it’s a lot less hurtling.