: Re: Is this couplet in iambic pentameter? Is this couplet in iambic pentameter? Sir thou are in love, take Cupid's wings fly to acquire the source of that feeling.

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Close, but not quite.
A line in iambic pentameter is made up of five iambic feet. An iambic foot is made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (for example, the word "a-bove"). For this answer, I will be using bold to indicate stressed syllables.
Your first line fits the meter, but only has nine syllables, and is missing an unstressed syllable at the beginning:

Sir thou are in love, take Cupid's wings

Your second line has ten syllables, but the first and last feet are inverted, with the stressed syllable coming first:

Fly to acquire the source of that feeling

That's not to say you can't do this: Wikipedia lists several examples of rhythmic variations, from Shakespeare and others.

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